Current challenges in the organisation of teacher education in Denmark: Paper for Nordic Teahcer Education Conference, Hjørring

Two main types of arguments are being put forward for relocating teacher education to universities. One is that it will improve the subject knowledge of teacher and thus enable them to raise the skill levels of Danish students in core subjects. Another is that many students seem to fear being “locked” in the professional role as teacher and would like to have the wider range of choices – and perhaps the higher prestige - available in universities. In the paper we discuss the second of these arguments, the question of recruitment, on the basis of existing evidence . Furthermore we will present and discuss a new model for teacher education being developed in collaboration between the Northern Denmark University College and Aalborg University.