An Analysis of Primary Teacher Education in Trinidad and Tobago: The MUSTER Project (CIE, 2002, 156 p.): Preface

An Analysis of Primary Teacher Education in Trinidad and Tobago: The MUSTER Project (CIE, 2002, 156 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Multi-Site Teacher Education Research Project (MUSTER)
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		List of MUSTER Researchers in Trinidad and Tobago
		List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
		Executive Summary
		Chapter 1. Background to the Study
		Chapter 2. Overview of the Education System
		Chapter 3. Trainees and the Training Environment
		Chapter 4. The Curriculum - Documented and Espoused
		Chapter 5. Trainees' In-College Learning Experiences
		Chapter 6. Trainees' Views of Themselves and the Teaching Profession
		Chapter 7. Learning to Teach - Experiences of Teacher Trainees and Newly Qualified Teachers
		Chapter 8. Costs and Financing, and Demand for Primary Teacher Education
		Chapter 9. Recommendations from the Muster Project
		Bibliography
		Appendix A. MUSTER Symposium: Critical Issues in Primary Teacher Education in Trinidad and Tobago - Programme
		Appendix B. Critical Issues in Primary Teacher Education in Trinidad and Tobago: Symposium Report
		Appendix C. Letter to the Minister of Education

Preface

This country report is one of the products of a Primary Teacher Education Research Project conducted by the School of Education, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, as part of a much larger project organized by the Centre for International Education (CIE), University of Sussex Institute of Education, United Kingdom. The Sussex initiative, the Multi-Site Teacher Education Research (MUSTER) Project, involved work in five countries-Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago. The project was funded by the British Department for International Development (DFID).