MAJOR STAGES OF TEACHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION IN HUNGARY IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT

Abstract

Assaying levels and institution types of teacher training with an outlook on higher education in Europe we find an overall tendency of making teacher education into a uniform academic university discipline. However, practice is diversified. In the case of pure academic teacher training models, dominantly, the university scope is enlarged with the previous (college - university) education levels lingering on within. (Venter 2008). All European countries make efforts to decrease or eliminate status differences among teachers and to enhance professionalism by taking the more extensive pedagogy training from the college tradition and the more extensive branch education from the academic tradition.