Educating Scotland's future together? Inter/professional preparation for schools and children's services

Citation

Forbes J & McCartney E (2011) Educating Scotland's future together? Inter/professional preparation for schools and children's services. Scottish Educational Review, 43 (2), pp. 39-54. http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/media/microsites/scottish-educational-review/documents/330.pdf

Abstract
This paper analyses children's sector policy and the 2011 Teaching Scotland's Future: Report of a review of teacher education in Scotland report with the aim of distinguishing their coherence and extent of disconnect. Overarching children?s services policies which stress examine the ways in which co-working is constituted in the report, with the conclusion that co-working is conceptualised in a limited way, not connecting with wider policies. Issues in danger of being marginalised are then considered, and a number of suggestions made concerning how to (re)connect policy rhetoric relating to co-work with action to prepare practitioners across the sector with the knowledge and skills needed to work together. The method is document review.

Keywords
teaching; co-working; teacher education; Secondary Education; High schools; Special aspects of education

Journal
Scottish Educational Review: Volume 43, Issue 2

People

Professor Joan Forbes

Honorary Professor, Education

Professor Elspeth McCartney

Honorary Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences