teacher colleges

Pedagogue training institutions

Teacher colleges are institutions that train students to become teachers, typically offering undergraduate degrees in education.

Also called normal schools historically, they emerged in the nineteenth century to professionalize teaching.

Many have since expanded into comprehensive universities while retaining their emphasis on educator preparation: She attended one of the old teacher colleges before it became a state university.

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Institutions combining teaching with investigation

research institutions · liberal arts colleges · technical institutes · medical schools · law schools

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Highly selective higher education

Oxbridge · MIT · Stanford

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Advanced research degree curricula

graduate schools

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