Overview
- Presents a contemporary collection of current school university partnerships across initial teacher education providers
- Describes how school university partnerships are conceived within a country’s broader policy context
- Explores possibilities around sustainability from working in policy funded school-university partnerships
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This book draws together international scholarship on school–university partnerships challenging thinking about purpose and sustainability as well as the power of collaboration in transcending organisational and contextual boundaries. Moving beyond transactional arrangements, the book showcase various models of school–university partnerships, and explores the role of policy, research, and practice, across the life cycle of partnerships. This edited collection presents a strong body of evidence with global significance, providing valuable insights into catalysts for partnerships, the drivers for transformational change, and generative growth resulting from authentic collaboration. An important reference for all teacher education providers, schools, and educational stakeholders, this book showcases global examples of the power of partnerships in an era necessitating cross sectoral collaboration to address contemporary societal challenges.
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Keywords
- School-university Partnerships
- International School University Partnerships
- Global School University Partnerships
- Global Education
- International Education
- Global Education
- Partnerships
- School Partnerships
- University Partnerships
- Educational Policy
- Policy in Education
- Global Educational Policy
- Initial Teacher Education
- Theory and Practice in Education
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniela Acquaro (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Education and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Daniela has held various leadership roles including Professional Experience and Course Coordination, and most recently as the Director of Initial Teacher Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education providing oversight of Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary teacher preparation courses. Daniela has led various school-university partnerships as well as national and international research and development projects in the areas of teacher education and school leadership. Her current projects include researching teacher shortages and transitions into rural and regional areas; developing successful school-university partnerships; and international comparative research on school leadership and school improvement.
Ondine is a Teaching Scholar in the School ofEducation at Deakin University, Australia. Ondine has over fifteen years of classroom and leadership experience in the primary sector and has held both professional and academic roles in the tertiary sector. She has previously conducted the role of a Site Director overseeing the preparation of pre-service teachers and capacity building of mentors, as well as building and sustaining school-university partnerships. Ondine was also a Senior Project Manager at the Victorian Department of Education and Training, managing the Teaching Academy of Professional Practice initiative. She is currently completing her PhD on the development of teachers in middle leadership roles. Her current projects include researching the impact of rural incentive programs for pre-service and in-service teachers; teacher development; and the impact of social networks on quality school-university partnerships in initial teacher education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Perspectives on School-University Partnerships
Book Subtitle: Research, Policy and Practice
Editors: Daniela Acquaro, Ondine Jayne Bradbury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0807-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-0806-6Published: 18 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-0809-7Published: 18 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-0807-3Published: 17 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 220
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education