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The article explores a study engaged in teachers-research and the student being able to be requiring practitioners. A group of Britain student teachers were studied, utilizing questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and field notes from direct observation. Using a grounded theory methodology, the result follow that reporting research does not providies teachers the skills and tools for reflection, that are easily transferable to practice.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 24, 2008
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The study explores research conducted in English language teaching. Only moderate reading has been done, according to a survey the author has done. The two factors examined were teacher's conception of research, and their perception of the institutional research culture.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 19, 2008
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The article explores the roots of narrative research in education and the focuses on 'story constellation', a narrative inquiry that uncovers teacher's knowledge of school reform. The story' is a three-dimensional inquiry space, and sketches how the place, human-agency, and the living of school reform played out differently in differing school areas.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jun. 19, 2008
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This article explores the development and effects of Swedish post-war policies on the emergence of a research base for teacher education. From 2001 onwards, it is possible to undertake research and postgraduate studies within teacher education in Sweden, which prior to the 2001 reform was not possible.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 11, 2008
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A preliminary study is conducted, exploring the reflective thinking of beginning teachers. The study is focused on practice experience. The study reviews system of analyzing reflective writing, and comments on their suitability for writing journals.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jun. 11, 2008
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Engaging in a self-study is a multi-faceted activity that involves not only autobiography and theory, but also students and colleagues. Learning from and with colleagues can take many forms. This article discusses the authors' experience with reciprocal classroom observation in a teacher education context. Peer observation supported our learning about our own teaching by providing suggestions for change and mutual reassurance.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 10, 2008
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This article explores how supervisors of teachers preparing dissertations can create a space for the imagination in the tutorial setting. The imagination is seen as “opening up to possibility,” where the student is taking a step into the unknown. The article discusses how the tutor can best support this, taking the theme of “holding the space for the student's learning.”
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 10, 2008
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In this self-study, a teacher educator and an experienced teacher analyze an unexpected shared opportunity to mentor pre-service elementary educators. Our partnership arose during a graduate course on literacy development for elementary students, serendipitously captured during an extended electronic conversation with the pre-service candidates.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 10, 2008
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Sharpening our approaches to methodology in self-study research can strengthen our work and clarify questions that arise for readers unfamiliar with this research genre. Our article considers three methodologies - narrative, auto-ethnography and self-study - that privilege self in the research design, believing that addressing self can contribute to our understandings about teaching and teacher education.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 02, 2008
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This article reports the influence of school-integrated teacher education (SITE) courses on student teachers' initial experiences of learning how to teach. We analyse data from five student teachers who reflect back on their experiences of learning to teach through the integrated teaching and learning experiences of SITE courses.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 02, 2008