Practical Theorising in Teacher Education

Practical Theorising in Teacher Education

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  • Author: Katharine Burn
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000613755
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

This insightful collection offers a timely contribution to the body of research on practical theorising in teacher education. Acknowledging the importance of experience and reflective practice in teaching, this book simultaneously embraces the essential need for teachers at all career stages to engage effectively and critically with evidence from research. Drawing together a range of perspectives from university-based and school-based teacher educators, this book examines the challenges and critiques advanced when practical theorising was first proposed, as well as recent tensions created by the performative culture that now pervades education. It illustrates the constant renegotiation and renewal necessary to sustain such an approach to beginners’ learning, investigating a range of tools developed by teacher educators to help beginning teachers navigate these demands. Demonstrating the value of practical theorising and therefore promoting powerful professional learning for practitioners, this book is essential for teachers at all career stages, including trainee teachers and student teachers.


Tensions in Teaching about Teaching

Tensions in Teaching about Teaching

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  • Author: Amanda Berry
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 1402059930
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

This book captures the excitement – and the difficulties – of self-study of teacher education practices, placing it at the forefront of approaches to practitioner inquiry. It offers insight into the relationship between teaching about teaching and learning about teaching that emerged through the author’s own self-study project. The book illustrates how tensions can act as a means for both analysing practice and articulating the professional knowledge that comprises a pedagogy of teacher education.


Linking Practice and Theory

Linking Practice and Theory

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  • Author: Fred A.J. Korthagen
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135652481
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 572

Although the idea of the reflective practitioner is embraced by many, there is still a need to understand how teachers' practical experience and the theoretical insights of researchers can be linked in teacher education. This book offers a framework for addressing this problem. It brings together 15 years of experience in teacher education and research, based on Korthagen's concept of "realistic teacher education" which is well known in Europe and gaining interest in North America. Set up as a journey back and forth between practice and theory, this book is not only about linking them but models how it can be done, providing both practical solutions and research-based theoretical foundations. Linking Practice and Theory: The Pedagogy of Realistic Teacher Education: * serves as a guidebook for teacher educators, with many practical ideas and guidelines; * prepares the reader for a fundamental shift in thinking about teacher education; and * uses an international perspective in analyzing real, practical experience in teacher education, in the Netherlands and in other countries.


Bridging Theory and Practice in Teacher Education

Bridging Theory and Practice in Teacher Education

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9087900996
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 156

This book addresses both the concerns of teacher candidates and their misconceptions about the relation of theory and practice in education. The contributors to this volume share the belief that theories provide teachers with a frame of reference and a language with which to name and critically analyze many of the problems they face daily.


The Teacher

The Teacher

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  • Author: Allen T. Pearson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315531356
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

It is widely agreed that teacher education must consist of two general components. There is a knowledge component which contains specialized subject matter knowledge, and a practical component in which intending teachers develop skills and abilities. In this original and compelling work, first published in 1989, Pearson attempts to examine the connection between the two. This title will be of interest to students of education.


Linking Practice and Theory

Linking Practice and Theory

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  • Author: Fred A. J. Korthagen
  • Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9780805839814
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Although the idea of the reflective practitioner is embraced by many, there is still a need to understand how teachers' practical experience and the theoretical insights of researchers can be linked in teacher education. This book offers a framework for addressing this problem. It brings together 15 years of experience in teacher education and research, based on Korthagen's concept of "realistic teacher education" which is well known in Europe and gaining interest in North America. Set up as a journey back and forth between practice and theory, this book is not only about linking them but models how it can be done, providing both practical solutions and research-based theoretical foundations. Linking Practice and Theory: The Pedagogy of Realistic Teacher Education: * serves as a guidebook for teacher educators, with many practical ideas and guidelines; * prepares the reader for a fundamental shift in thinking about teacher education; and * uses an international perspective in analyzing real, practical experience in teacher education, in the Netherlands and in other countries.


Theory to Practice in Teacher Education

Theory to Practice in Teacher Education

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  • Author: Christine Grima-Farrell
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 981329910X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 125

This book offers a theoretically and empirically robust account of what is known about the effective approaches that translate theory to practice in teacher education, presenting evidence from case studies from a diverse range of contexts informed by various methodological foundations. It also provides accounts that support teacher educators involved in both school and university based teacher education. The book offers insights into the translation of theory to practice from the long history of teacher education, the benefit of diverse approaches in terms of the effectiveness of initial teacher education, and the impact of professional standards.


The Rediscovery of Teaching

The Rediscovery of Teaching

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  • Author: Gert J. J. Biesta
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317208110
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

The Rediscovery of Teaching presents the innovative claim that teaching does not necessarily have to be perceived as an act of control but can be understood and configured as a way of activating possibilities for students to exist as subjects. By framing teaching as an act of dissensus, that is, as an interruption of egological ways of being, this book positions teaching at the progressive end of the educational spectrum, where it can be reconnected with the emancipatory ambitions of education. In conversation with the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Paulo Freire, Jacques Rancière, and other theorists, Gert Biesta shows how students’ existence as subjects hinges on the creation of existential possibilities, through which students can assert their "grown-up" place in the world. Written for researchers and students in the areas of philosophy of education, educational theory, curriculum theory, teaching, and teacher education, The Rediscovery of Teaching demonstrates the important role of teachers and teaching in the project of education as emancipation towards grown-up ways of being in the world.


Policy, Teacher Education and the Quality of Teachers and Teaching

Policy, Teacher Education and the Quality of Teachers and Teaching

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  • Author: Christopher Day
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100034326X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 126

This edited collection brings together papers written by a number of experienced international academics who share a passion for promoting research-informed, high-quality pre-service and in-service teacher education that makes a positive difference to the lives of teachers and their students. Taken together, the contributions to this book represent a call to arms for all who lead education policy at local, regional, and national levels, teacher educators, and schools themselves, to engage in sustained and productive collaboration. Topics include: the centrality of empathy to the classroom, ‘practical theorising’ that is a central part of all good teachers’ armoury; the possibilities for collaborative professionalism which enables them to extend and enrich their thinking, commitment, and capacity for resilience; the pedagogical reasoning, habits of mind, critical reflection, knowledge, and skills that lead to the best classroom practices. Only when the voices of stakeholders at all these levels are brought together, heard, and enacted, are students in all schools in all contexts and in all jurisdictions likely to receive the quality of education to which all are entitled. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Teachers and Teaching.


Teacher Education: Curriculum and change

Teacher Education: Curriculum and change

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  • Author: David Hartley
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9780415324250
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 524