Problem-Based Learning in Teacher Education

✍ Scribed by Margot Filipenko, Jo-Anne Naslund (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 245
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of problem-based learning (PBL) in teacher education. Featuring the perspectives of experienced teacher educators, it details the strengths of problem-based learning pedagogy as well as identifies continuing challenges and future possibilities.

The book explains the goals, content, processes and strategies of a successful and longstanding problem-based learning teacher education program at the University of British Columbia. It features contributions from tutors, faculty, school administrators, faculty advisors, school advisors, librarians and pre-service teachers who share their perspectives about problem-based learning as a robust and exciting approach for teaching and learning.

Overall, the contributors to the book discuss the history of the program, its implementation and future directions. In the process, readers discover the ways that problem-based learning has succeeded in preparing educators to teach diverse learners and acquire the professional dispositions necessary for teaching in today’s multilingual/multicultural classrooms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Discovering, Uncovering, and Creating Meanings: Problem Based Learning in Teacher Education....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
Exploring Theoretical Frameworks of Problem Based Learning Through Aoki’s Curriculum-as-Plan and Curriculum-as-Lived ....Pages 11-22
Dispositions for Inquiry....Pages 23-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-40
Knowledge Mobilization and Innovation in the Development of a PBL Cohort for Teaching English Language Learners: Successes, Challenges, and Possibilities....Pages 41-55
Negotiating the Content of Problems in Tell/PBL....Pages 57-71
Finding Good Governance: Collaboration Between the University of British Columbia and the Richmond School District....Pages 73-83
Collaboration: The Heart of the School-Based Practicum....Pages 85-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-101
The Multiple Roles of the Tutor in a Problem Based Learning Cohort in a Teacher Education Program....Pages 103-121
“I’m Not Allowed to Tell You”: What Does It Mean to Be a Problem Based Learning Tutor?....Pages 123-133
Investigating Cases: Problem-Based Learning and the Library....Pages 135-150
Investigating Social Justice Education Through Problem Based Learning: A Subject Area Resource Specialist’s Perspective....Pages 151-172
The Place of Problems in Problem Based Learning: A Case of Mathematics and Teacher Education....Pages 173-186
Measures of Success in Problem Based Learning: Triple Jump Assessments and E-Folios....Pages 187-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-204
Continuing Challenges and Resistance....Pages 205-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-241

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education; Learning & Instruction; Language Education; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education

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