Teacher Development in Action: Understanding Language Teachers’ Conceptual Change

✍ Scribed by Magdalena Kubanyiova (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 237
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Teacher Change Research: a Critical Overview....Pages 6-29
Theories of Learning and Change in Psychology....Pages 30-53
Pulling it Together: an Integrated Model of Language Teacher Conceptual Change....Pages 54-65
The Study of Language Teachers’ Conceptual Change: Grounded Theory Ethnography....Pages 66-100
It’s Not What They Know, It’s Who They See: Ideal Selves as Central Cognitions in Conceptual Change....Pages 101-123
Emotional Dissonance: Essential but Insufficient Catalyst for Conceptual Change....Pages 124-136
When Change Threatens the Teachers’ Sense of Self: Emotional Battles in Balancing Ideal, Ought-to and Feared Selves....Pages 137-160
It’s not as Simple as It Sounds: Teacher Change as a Multifaceted, Situated, Emerging and Dynamic Process....Pages 161-189
Conclusion: New Metaphors for Researching and Educating for Teacher Change....Pages 190-196
Epilogue....Pages 197-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-220

✦ Subjects

Language Teaching;Linguistics, general;Teaching and Teacher Education;Literacy

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