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This self-study explored the role of emotions in teacher education classrooms, with particular attention to the connections between faculty, student, and institutional cultures. The authors come from diverse backgrounds of race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation, while their students are largely White, female, Christian and heterosexual. Findings illuminate the struggles experienced by faculty when cultural differences impede their relationships with their students and their institution. Colleges of education must recognize these challenges and address institutional and cultural barriers.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 22, 2010
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This articler examines the transition that classroom teachers experience moving into the academy as teacher educators. The authors outline the findings of a qualitative case study that utilised self-study and teacher narrative to explore the road travelled by a group of new teacher educators in a regional university in rural Australia. The research explored patterns of experience between the authors themselves and the other participants. The authors conclude that it is important to recognise both the context and process of the transition in order to retain teacher educators in higher education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 20, 2010
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This study examines how the author’s experience as a classroom teacher shaped the pedagogical decisions which the author made during his first semester as a university supervisor. Furthermore, this self-study provides an insider’s account of the author’s practice as a novice university supervisor. The findings suggest that the author constructed a pedagogy of field-based teacher education. This pedagogy was guided by a rationale which the author terms in loco paedagogus, whereby the author instructs students based on how the author would react in a similar situation.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 20, 2010
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This article examines the author’s three-year journey developing a personal pedagogy of teacher education. As an autobiographical self-study, nodal moments are revealed that raise and reflect the tensions the author experienced and the challenges the author encountered. The author argues that teacher educators, particularly those teaching part time, need to be supported in learning how to facilitate identification of their own and teacher candidates’ beliefs about teaching.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 20, 2010
155
This article describes a study on teacher educators' professional development in the context of national curriculum reform in China. The article presents a case study on Chinese teacher educators' professional development in the context of education reform. It explains the background of the implementation of the new curriculum of basic education and its impacts on teacher education. After analyzing the major issues emerging from the investigation, the author suggests further research regarding the development of a sustainable curriculum of teacher education and steering standards for teacher educators' professional development.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 27, 2010
156
Using Latvia as a case study, this article examines one of the first efforts to create professional development opportunities for a group of pre-service teacher educators. Furthermore, this article explains how this short-term project had contributed to re-conceptualizing professional development for the participants involved in the initiative. The study revealed that one of the factors, which contributed to the emergence of a new culture of professional development, was the concept around which the Project and its participants were organized—cooperative learning.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 25, 2010
157
In this article, the author examines her own involvement and that of other teachers and teacher educators in five practice-based research studies in terms of their professional learning and border pedagogy. The author played a key role in each project and offer an 'insider' perspective through an autobiographical narrative based on self-study. Each project involved crossing a border between professional knowledge contexts, and explores the 'journey' metaphor of professional learning. The metaphors of passport and visa are used to explore the identities and purposes for the professional learning 'journey'. The benefits of border-crossing for professional learning are then discussed.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 11, 2010
158
The purpose of this self-study is two-fold. Firstly, to aid in redressing the lack of attention given to the professional development of teacher educators; and secondly, to show that an attitude of self-directed inquiry combined with elements of reflective teaching enabled the author’s professional development. Specifically, the report shows how the author built practical or work-related knowledge in how to encourage the participation of a language-minority student in classroom discussions, differentiated instruction and learning and collaboration with colleagues.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 11, 2010
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This work is based on the authors’ experience as teacher educators in the Active Collaborative Education (ACE) teacher education program in College of Education, Israel. The authors study the meaning of professional development as a participative process within a community of practice. The study is based on personal career stories, each told by its author, but once told becoming a chapter in the group’s story, to be further analyzed and interpreted by its members. This process revealed four themes that contribute to professional learning experiences constructed within the context of being in the team: group diversity, interwoven work, the novice stance and collaborative research.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 07, 2010
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This paper discusses a critical challenge to current paradigms of continuing professional development within higher education institutions. A small group of higher-education-based teacher educators for the English post-compulsory sector describes and exposes the values and processes operating within a particular kind of professional development ‘space’ of their own creation. The main constituents of this way of working are identified and the process is illustrated with reference to the experience of collaborative writing within the group. The focus on criticality leads to an emerging concept of ‘critical collaborative writing’, and the implications of this particular example for higher education colleagues and institutions are explored.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 07, 2010