Professional Learning Through Transitions and Transformations: Teacher Educators’ Journeys of Becoming

✍ Scribed by Judy Williams, Mike Hayler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 15
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through a narrative inquiry approach, this book examines the personal professional journeys of teacher educators who have undertaken self studies, and/or researched the professional development of teacher educators. The theme of the book is how change, through professional transitions and transformations and notably, through self study research, has shaped the professional identities and practices of these teacher educators. Each chapter is an exploration of how the author/s ‘became’ teacher educators in relation to personal and/or professional transitions, such as transitioning from teacher to teacher educator; moving between different institutional and geographic contexts; or from changes in philosophical, policy and/or pedagogical understandings over time. Each narrative draws on the author’s self study experience, and develops their knowledge further by presenting the wisdom they have gained over their career as teacher educators. The book concludes with a discussion of the connections between the diverse experiences of the authors, and what can be learned from their accumulated wisdom about what is means to become a teacher educator in a dynamic and ever-changing educational landscape.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
On the Journey of Becoming a Teacher Educator....Pages 1-12
Narratives of the Power of Experience in a Teacher Educator’s Development....Pages 13-28
Directing the Action: Learning to Focus on the Self to Develop My Pedagogy of Teacher Education....Pages 29-44
On Deconstructing Folk Theory While Developing as a Teacher Educator: A Disorienting Transition as a Reorienting Opportunity....Pages 45-59
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: ‘A Small Heroic Everyday Epic’ of Teacher Education in a Digital Age....Pages 61-78
The Long and Winding Road: Reflections on Experience of Becoming Teacher Educator....Pages 79-94
Becoming Ourselves as Teacher Educators: Trespassing, Transgression and Transformation....Pages 95-106
Becoming a Teacher Educator: The Rise of Crusader Rabbit ....Pages 107-121
A Quest for a Pedagogy of Critical Theorising in Physical Education Teacher Education: One Physical Educator’s Journey....Pages 123-135
A Work in Progress....Pages 137-150
On Becoming a Democratic Teacher Educator....Pages 151-165
Looking Back on 15 Years of Relational Teacher Education: A Narrative Self-Study....Pages 167-182
A Process of Becoming: Continuing Change in the Practice of Teacher Educators....Pages 183-197
Learning from Stories of Becoming....Pages 199-208

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education