Teacher education in the USSR has since 1985 increasingly moved away from a pattern of highly centralized control and inflexible ideology. Social and political changes have engendered changes in the educational system, including changes in how teachers are initially prepared and provided with inservice training. Two new approaches to teacher education are surveyed here. The first, a program of preservice training, proposed in 1991 by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Republic (RSFSR) would provide teachers-to-be with more varied options as they ready themselves for teaching. The second, a seminar program run by an independent group called the Eureka Open Pedagogical University, focuses on providing current teachers with new images and models of teaching practice. Such approaches, and more like them, will be needed to enable Soviet schools to surmount the serious obstacles that remain.
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