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This paper describes the way four school-based teacher educators fulfill their role as educators of student teachers who learn how to teach while participating in the workplace. The authors use tools (e.g., apprenticeship assignments) developed within the teacher education institute and rely on their professional knowledge as experienced schoolteachers. The results indicate that student teachers being provided with useful tricks which, however, hardly helps them to interpret and elaborate their experiences from a more conceptual or theoretical perspective.
Published: 2009
Updated: Feb. 10, 2010
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In this study, a group of teacher educators converse about their teaching practice in light of a new provincial K-12 program of social studies. The most noteworthy feature of this new program is its explicit call for teachers to include Aboriginal and Francophone perspectives as they teach to the program's two central themes of “identity” and “citizenship”. The author reads teacher educators' conversations about their practice to identify a set of educational questions that the author argues speak both to and beyond this specific programmatic context.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 31, 2010
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Previous research has demonstrated that teacher education has often had difficulties in incorporating theory into practice, and that the effects of teacher education on the prior beliefs and views on teaching and learning of student teachers have been weak. The purpose of the present qualitative study was to find out how the Finnish teacher education system deals with these problems by investigating the current goals Finnish teacher educators have for their own teaching in theoretical courses.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 31, 2010
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This article will discuss the work of a teacher educator who espouses critical race feminism as a means of fighting against a curriculum of oppression in teacher education. The article will conclude with an analysis of the power of language and dialect, a form of curriculum oppression, in teacher education with the need to fight against such oppression in the development of new teachers from a critical race feminist perspective.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 30, 2009
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It is critical that both teacher educators and supervising teachers provide strategies to strengthen pre-service teachers' beliefs and maintain their motivation. In this article, a strength-based mentoring model in teacher education is presented. Furthermore, measures and strategies developed from different strength-based theories are applied to the six elements of this model.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 07, 2009
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This article provides an analytical account of one research group of teacher-educators funded by The Welsh Education Research Network (WERN). The case study describes the research activity of the group and the views of its members on its impact for their professional practice. Finally an analysis of the findings concludes that engagement with research has resulted in positive changes to the knowledge, skills and critical awareness of the teacher-educators which has in turn brought benefits to the learning of their students.
Published: 2009
Updated: Nov. 10, 2009
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This study examines the effect of the author’s modeling processes as evidenced by education students’ assessments of his courses. The author addresses the particular question, what benefits do his students perceive receiving from his personal literacy practices in class? He collected data from 75 pre-service and in-service teachers enrolled in four different courses. Responses revealed perceptions of five primary benefits, underscoring both academic and affective components.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 20, 2009
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The need for capacity-building in teacher education in the UK has been raised as a serious issue by a number of commentators. This paper provides an analytical account of an initiative conducted by the Teacher Education Group (TEG) to build research capacity in teacher education. With reference to a review of the national contexts for research in the UK and research on teacher educators, the article argues that, in order to build research capacity initiatives we need to provide motivation and new types of networking opportunities for researchers, as well as developing their expertise.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 18, 2009
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The teacher educator is always also a teacher, and as a role model may have an important impact on student teachers' views on teaching. Becoming a teacher or a teacher educator is a long-term process of developing a professional identity, with role models being just one of the contributing factors. This study of 13 teacher educators addresses the impact of schoolteacher role models as part of the socialization process of becoming a teacher.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 01, 2009
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In this article, the authors report on a study in which they examined the multiple interactions and activity settings in which student teachers learn to teach language arts. The study explores the student teachers' experiences from the perspective of the three key triad members- student teachers, cooperating teachers and university supervisors- using activity theory. The findings reveal that all members of the triad were simultaneously operating in multiple settings and facing competing demands that shaped their actions and stances
Published: 2009
Updated: Sep. 29, 2009