Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education : Materials

Abstract

Teacher education materials should closely complement the curriculum, and help teacher educators to deliver it. Despite their close links, however, the teacher education curriculum and teacher education materials are not exactly the same thing. The curriculum is a way of organizing and sequencing learning experiences, with the aim of achieving specified learning outcomes. It guides what will be learned, and why, and how this learning is facilitated. The materials support this process, although it is possible to have a situation in which the materials used do not match or reinforce the overall curriculum.