The Place of Educational Broadcasting in the Pre‐service Training of Teachers

This paper describes an attempt to develop a strategy for encouraging the effective utilisation of broadcast resources in pre‐service teacher training. A number of conditions that affect such effective use by staff or departments within Colleges of Education are identified. The paper then proceeds to outline the strategy adopted in mounting two exercises in Scottish Colleges of Education in an attempt to provide, for College staff, a focus of attention on the value of educational broadcasting in the pre‐service education of teachers. The first exercise described concerns the Primary Education Department in Moray House College of Education and the second, a number of Secondary Departments in Aberdeen College of Education. The value of the exercises is commented on, and the conclusion is reached that staff in Colleges of Education would benefit greatly from similar exercises mounted by the Colleges themselves.