Navigating in educational contexts : : identities and cultures in dialogue / / edited by Anneli Lauriala ... [et al.].

• Author: International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lauriala, Anneli.; International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at a 2009 conference at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi (Finland).

Navigating in Educational Contexts: Identities and Cultures in Dialogue includes selected papers from the 2009 Biennial Conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT), held at the University of Lapland in Finland. This volume contains keynote addresses and papers based on the thematic presentations held at the conference: Identity, context and marginality, Professional development and learning, Context and teaching, and ICT in teaching and learning. The articles open perspectives to the challenges in. education and point to the need for dialogue between different racial, cultural, social and gender groups. The articles benefit educators, teacher educators and policy makers aiming to enhance equity and equality. Insights into teachers’ professional and personal knowledge are combined with wider social, cultural and global issues, and through experiences of learning both in Real Life and Second Life. There are many inspiring and promising ideas and approaches of how to promote quality teaching and learning. Under network-based education the topics of ICT skills and experiences, models of ICT integration, virtual reality and a simulation-based learning and online tutoring are being described and assessed. The book is rooted in the studies, practises and arguments of researchers, teachers, educators and students navigating in diverse educational contexts. It will fascinate all those involved and interested in challenging educational practises and thinking.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Anneli Lauriala , Raimo Rajala , Heli Ruokamo and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä -- Foreword / Anneli Lauriala , Raimo Rajala , Heli Ruokamo and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä -- Acknowledgements / Anneli Lauriala , Raimo Rajala , Heli Ruokamo and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä -- Preface / Anneli Lauriala , Raimo Rajala , Heli Ruokamo and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä -- Teaching and Marginality: Lessons from Teachers’ life stories / Freema Elbaz-Luwisch -- Innate temperament explains too much from a student’s school achievement? / Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen and Sari Mullola -- The Role of crisis in the development of student teachers’ professional identity / Paulien C. Meijer -- Learning and teaching on spaceship earth: The search for sustainable values in education / Michael Kompf -- Identity thresholds: Researching the socio-political impact of learning in immersive virtual worlds / Maggi Savin-Baden -- Early formations of teacher identity: Prospective teacher candidates notions of teacher roles / Lisa A. Gross and Susan D. Gilbert -- Exploring the nature of teachers’ professional learning / John Loughran , Amanda Berry , Allie Clemans , Stephen Keast , Bianca Miranda , Graham Parr , Philip Riley and Elizabeth Tudball -- Five steps forward − developing pedagogical expertise during teacher education / Helena Koskinen -- Taking metacognition a step further: Teachers sharing pedagogical purposes / Ian Mitchell and Judie Mitchell -- “Good pal, wise dad and nagging wife” – and other views of teaching practice mentors / Riitta Jyrhämä and Erja Syrjäläinen -- Transfer credits in higher education: The path to globalization / Christine Arnold and Michael Kompf -- The Right to Education: A new Foundation for Schools and Communities / Jude Butcher , Anne Benjamin , Chris Sidoti , Anthony Steel and Dawn Casey -- Cosmologies and lifestyles: A cultural Ecological Framework and its Implications for Education Systems / Phil Bayliss and Patrick Dillon -- What personal factors motivate the caring teacher? / Wendy Moran -- The effect of teachers’ personal beliefs and emotional intelligence on quality and effectiveness of teaching / Lefkios Neophytou , Mary Koutselini and Leonidas Kyriakides -- Longitudinal study of the relationship between students’ perceptions of their problem solving and ICT skills and their ICT experience as part of their teacher education program / Shukri Sanber and Marea Nicholson -- Professional links – professional support: Promoting the development of quality pedagogy and teachers’ self-efficacy in the use of ICT within a supportive professional learning community / Carolyn Broadbent , Maureen Boyle and Jo Brady -- Designing a pedagogical model for virtual reality and simulation-based learning environments of healthcare / Tuulikki Keskitalo and Heli Ruokamo -- Online tutoring for media education interns in practical training / Leo Pekkala , Päivi Hakkarainen and Harri Heikkilä -- Contributors / Anneli Lauriala , Raimo Rajala , Heli Ruokamo and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä -- Reviewers / Anneli Lauriala , Raimo Rajala , Heli Ruokamo and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä.