Tensions In Teaching About Teaching: Understanding Practice as a Teacher Educator

✍ Scribed by Amanda Berry (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This series in Teacher Education: Self-study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) has been created in order to offer clear and strong examples of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It explicitly values the work of teachers and teacher educators and through the research of their practice, offers insights into new ways of encouraging educational change. The series is designed to complement the Inter- tional Handbook of Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education practices (Loughran, Hamilton, LaBoskey, & Russell, 2004) and as such, helps to further define this important field of teaching and research. Self-study of teaching and teacher education practices has become an important ‘way in’to better understanding the complex world of teaching and learning about teaching. The questions, issues and concerns, of teacher educators in and of their own practice are dramatically different to those raised by observers of the field. Hence, self-study can be seen as an invitation to teacher educators to more meani- fully link research and practice in ways that matter for their pedagogy and, as a consequence, their students’learning about pedagogy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Beginning To Research My Practice....Pages 1-6
Teacher Educators Studying Their Work....Pages 7-20
Developing A Research Approach....Pages 21-30
Tensions as a Framework for Learning About Practice in Teacher Education....Pages 31-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Telling and Growth....Pages 45-61
Confidence and Uncertainty....Pages 63-80
Action and Intent....Pages 81-95
Safety and Challenge....Pages 97-110
Planning and Being Responsive....Pages 111-124
Valuing and Reconstructing Experience....Pages 125-138
Revisiting and Summarising The Tensions....Pages 139-151
Front Matter....Pages 152-152
Becoming a Teacher Educator....Pages 153-167

✦ Subjects

Teacher Education; Science Education