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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Humphreys, Sara
• Dunne, Máiréad
• Durrani, Naureen
• Sankey, Swadchet
• Kaibo, Jiddere

Titel

Becoming a teacher: Experiences of female trainees in initial teacher education in Nigeria

Ist Teil von

• Teaching and teacher education, 2020-01, Vol.87, p.102957, Article 102957

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article foregrounds the experiences of female trainees on a scholarship programme for initial teacher education aimed at increasing the number of qualified female teachers from rural northern Nigeria, and boosting female pupil enrolments. Challenging conditions in colleges of education, including curricular shortcomings, overcrowding, limited resources and inadequate learning support were compounded by non-academic factors – especially financial, and gendered constraints. Collectively, they threatened student retention, learning and attainment, and the programme’s gender equity goals. Findings highlight the need to move beyond increasing numbers of female student-teachers, to improving quality in teacher education, paying attention to out-of-college conditions too. •A teacher education scholarship scheme in Nigeria for rural female teachers aims to boost numbers.•Academic conditions in colleges of education work against awardees’ chances of success.•Financial worries, living conditions and other gendered constraints compound their difficulties.•Improving the quality of teacher education is more important than just increasing teacher numbers.