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- Title: Transforming Teacher Education in Hungary: Competencies for Elementary Teachers (Report)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 202 KB
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The Hungarian-born physicist and mathematician Eugene Wigner, a winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, remembered his mathematics teacher in Budapest, Hungary, as follows: "He had every quality of a miraculous teacher: He loved teaching, he knew his subject and how to kindle interest in it. No one could evoke the beauty of a subject like him" (Matron, 2007, p. 40). Wigner's words show that teachers have a critical role in shaping students' learning experience. Through nurturing human potential, teachers make a considerable imprint on future generations and on society. Therefore, teacher education programs carry a great responsibility, as they are tasked with preparing teachers who have broad subject knowledge, sound pedagogical skills and dispositions to guide and support students, and an understanding of the social and cultural climate of education. Some of these expectations for teachers are relatively universal and eternal; others are changing, as societies experience transformation. Such recent changes occurred in Hungary after it joined the European Union in 2004. As Hungary became part of the European conversations about teachers and teacher education, the European Union's recommendations for improvement necessitated changes in both the organization and the content of teacher education. With the emergence of a three-cycle system within higher education and the shift from a content-based approach to a competency-based (1) approach, Hungarian elementary teacher education faced numerous challenges.