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

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 th...

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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
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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.