University of Western Ontario Faculty of Education
| Faculty of Education | |
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| Former names | Althouse College of Education |
| Type | Faculty (school of education) |
| Academic affiliation | University of Western Ontario |
| Location | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Dean | Vicki Schwean |
| Website | www |
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Althouse College of Education is a teacher's college at University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Originally named the Ontario College of Education, the second secondary teacher training institution established in Ontario, it opened its doors in 1962. The south-half of building served as the Department of Education for Ontario, staffing J. G. Althouse, its first Chief Director of Education (1944-1956) and also Dean of the College (1934-1944).
With great expansion over the years, the Department of Education moved out and on April 16, 1963 the building was renamed the Althouse College of Education. At this point the College remained only affiliated with the nearby University of Western Ontario. Turner served as Althouse College's Dean from 1965-1969. Its instruction staff consisted of a mix of veteran teacher faculty and PhD level research faculty. The College contained over 14 different departments, many for the teachable subjects (math, history, art, etc.), but also curriculum, psychology, and philosophy. In 1973, London Teacher's College (Elborn) merged with Althouse College to form the Faculty of Education at the university. Elborn mostly held veteran teacher faculty, and while some were brought over to Althouse College, many were not. Joining the university as a Faculty of Education (1974) contributed to attrition of non-research-based faculty, influencing them to either upgrade to a PhD-level or resign. During this period, the College began consolidating its many different departments. Stabler served as Dean for the London Teacher's College (1969–74), including the merging period to 1976. A graduate program was started later in the 1990s, the PhD program slowly growing with 6 students a year in 1999.
Early teacher education at Althouse required students to enrol in Philosophy, History, and Psychology as separate foundations courses. While the instructors of the latter two did not mind adjusting their purist backgrounds in history and psychology toward the educational contexts and relevance to education (History of Education; Educational Psychology), the philosophers feared that students would not receive philosophy as it should be taught because of the applied nature of education. Therefore, they did not adapt their practice to a kind of Philosophy of Education, and remained teaching purist philosophy to teacher-candidates such as logic, epistemology, and the history of modern philosophy. The students were not encouraged by this and complained the content was not relevant to their daily practice as teachers.
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