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Kelchtermans, Geert – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The person of the teacher is an essential element in what constitutes professional teaching and therefore needs careful conceptualisation. In this article the author argues for this central thesis, presenting a wrap up of his theoretical and empirical work on the issue over the past decade. These studies have been inspired--both conceptually and…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Educators
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Bullock, Shawn Michael – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The construction of a pedagogy of teacher education requires a sustained, systematic, and careful inquiry into one's own practice, predicated on the understanding that teaching is a discipline. This article begins by arguing that it is more appropriate to speak of a basis for knowing, rather than a knowledge base, for thinking about teaching and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Martin, Andrea K.; Russell, Tom – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Analysis of our own experiences teaching in preservice teacher education programs leads us to a range of insights, issues, and questions associated with the potential of seeing teaching as a discipline. We begin with the reality that teaching and teacher education appear to students as easy activities, while those who actually do them see them as…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intellectual Disciplines
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Long, Deborah Thurlow; Stuart, Carolyn – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
An integrated mathematics and science methods course was designed to focus on the knowledge, skills, and beliefs of teacher candidates. Teacher candidates were involved in experiences that would prompt them to consider the influence of their experiences on their beliefs, the influence of their beliefs on their instructional decisions and the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Methods Courses, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Wilson, Elaine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
The development of beginning teachers' practice during a school placement is a multiplicity of mediated interaction between university and school based systems. Both systems have the common aim of training effective teachers. However day-to-day internal institution matters can cause tension between the learning goals set out for the beginning…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Intervention, Classroom Environment, Beginning Teachers
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Poulou, Maria – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
In a context where the role of the teacher and teacher education are undergoing considerable change, the role of educational psychology in teacher preparation is discussed within a new framework. Educational psychology is now perceived as an inherent component within teacher training and professional development, having previously been an…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Needs, Self Efficacy, Educational Psychology
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Trotman, Janina; Kerr, Trevor – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2001
Describes the development of a graduate preservice education course in which students integrated personal life histories with other views and perspectives, thus broadening their outlooks. Students kept journals in which they reacted personally to reading material and related it to their own life histories. This encouraged them to examine their own…
Descriptors: Biographies, Consciousness Raising, Graduate Students, Graduate Study