Making a difference : : challenges for teachers, teaching and teacher education / / edited by Jude Butcher, Lorraine McDonald.

• TeilnehmendeR: Butcher, Jude,; McDonald, Lorraine,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Making a Difference: Challenges for Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education has been written to provide an international forum of scholarly discussion around the theme of how teachers and teacher educators can make a difference. It examines some of the challenges that need to be addressed across the teaching profession. The chapters have been developed by the contributors from a set of keynote presentations and refereed papers given at the 2005 International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) Conference, in Sydney, Australia. The conference was attended by 190 delegates, from a diverse range of countries: Australia, Belgium, Bosnia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the West Indies. A distinctive feature of the conference was the range of education systems, policies, teacher education programs, school districts, classrooms, teachers and students whose views were argued for and critiqued. This book has been prepared so that it reflects that breadth of contexts and issues. The book is presented in four sections, each emphasising a unique dimension of what is involved in making a difference. The authors offer a range of viewpoints from their different cultural, historical and professional contexts. While each section has a special emphasis, the major themes of heeding challenges and making a difference are woven into all the sections. The chapters in this book provide readers with frameworks, evidence and examples addressing challenges and making a difference. Evidence is presented as to how realities have been transformed for students, teachers and teacher educators as well as for the profession itself. We hope that your engagement with the authors and material in this ISATT forum will motivate you to transform realities in your own professional worlds. ISATT members please contact us for the ISATT members discount: [e-mail] .

Table of Contents

Section 1: Heed the challenges -- 1: Addressing challenges and making a difference -- 2: Improving pedagogy: the challenges of moving teachers toward higher levels of quality teaching -- 3: Professional commitment beyond contract: teacher's self-understanding, vulnerability and reflection -- 4: Unpacking practice: developing a language for teacher educators -- Section 2: Challenge assumptions -- 5: In search of the conditions of teachers' success -- 6: Communication in the flexible school - what will replace the IRE pattern? -- 7: Teachers' self-assessment of subject matter knowledge -- 8: Mapping the cognitive constraints of children's talk about pictures in the art classroom -- Section 3: Challenge practice -- 9: From "hot spots" of teacher action towards "cool reflection" - Developing teachers' competencies in reflecting on teaching -- 10: Learning at work: potential and limits for professional development -- 11: Teachers facing the challenges of daily practice in school reform -- 12: Considerations for designing coherent teacher education programs: using multi-linked conceptual framework -- Section 4: Transform realities -- 13: Transformational learning: an aboriginal educator's aspirations, supports and celebrations -- 14: A survey of the long-term influence of Torey Hayden's teacher lore on teachers' attitudes and practices toward children with disabilities -- 15: Encouraging a student teacher as researcher stance in teacher education -- 16: The metamorphosis of doctoral education in the UK and Europe: perspectives from a teacher learning -- 17: Towards a learning professional: understanding induction in a district-based community.