Standardy pro učitelské vzdělávání jako cesta ke kvalitě: reflexe vývoje ve Spolkové republice Německo
Standards for Teacher Education as a Road towards Quality: Reflections on Development in Germany

Summary/Abstract: The standards for teacher education in Germany have been developed on request of The standing conference of ministers of education and cultural affairs (KMK). Their declared aim is to enhance the quality of education by means of defining and checking competencies of graduates of teacher education programmes and related evaluations of teacher education. In this context, we analyse the development of this issue from the point of view of researchers who stand outside the system and conclude by comparing the situation with the Czech Republic. In the introductory part, we present basic information about the context of the topic, i.e. about the teacher education in Germany. Then we describe theoretical background of the KMK standards and analyse them in the context of the new public management. Next we introduce the standards by presenting concrete examples. In the concluding part, we mention how the situation of standardisation of teacher education has developed, what has been positively accepted and what has been criticised. We present the story of standardisation of teacher education in Germany as an act of state-wide educational politics whose ambition was to vigorously introduce the standards on the scene where they are slowly disappearing from. However, it does not mean that their impact are not evident − even though the KMK standards have not become mandatory, they have some effect at least in terms of so called soft governance.

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