ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION WITH SPECIAL APPLICATION TO THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN UGANDA.

Abstract

The purposes of this study are three-fold. First, to trace and analyze various types of collaborative ventures in teacher education which are of relevance to the professional training of teachers in Uganda; second, to identify and use certain theoretical characteristics of a healthy and fully functioning organization as a standard in the analysis of the organizational health of the Ugandan National Institute of Education and its sub-systems and third, to propose an alternative organizational structure of partnership and collaboration in teacher training for Uganda that embodies the characteristics of a healthy and fully functioning organization. Considerable space is devoted to the description of the work and organizational structure of institutes of education which were developed in Great Britain, West Africa, Central Africa and East Africa during the closing years of the1940's and the 1950s. In England and Wales institutes of education were developed as a response to recommendations of the Mc Nair Committee Report of 1944.