The Policy Analysis and Debate on “Internship”: An Exemplar of Research Conducted at the Center for Teacher Education Research, Beijing Normal University

Abstract

This chapter uses macro policy analysis conducted at the Center for Teacher Education Research (CTER), Beijing Normal University to analyze the decision-making concerning teacher internship from the perspective of national policy. Internship, a teacher preparation policy initiative in China, is both needed to ease the teacher shortages in rural and poor areas of China and to create new models of teaching practice. Attention is then given to two aspects in policy implementation – student teachers’ learning and teachers’ multiple forms of instruction – from the perspective of teacher preparation. To conclude, the chapter offers some summary statements having to do with the policy debate and the implementation of the internship in China.

Citation

Zhu, X., Yuan, L. and Chen, S. (2015), "The Policy Analysis and Debate on “Internship”: An Exemplar of Research Conducted at the Center for Teacher Education Research, Beijing Normal University", International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies (Part C) (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 22C), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720150000022013