Connecting Policy and Practice : : challenges for teaching and learning in schools and universities / / edited by Michael Kompf, Pam Denicolo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kompf, Michael,; Denicolo, Pam,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2005.; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (367 pages)

This volume delivers a selection of papers presented at an international teaching conference on issues of theory and practice. These key topics will be of interest to novice and veteran teachers, policy makers and all education professionals.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Teacher Education -- 1. Learning to be a Teacher: Teacher education and the development of professional identity -- 2. Teacher Learning and the Theory of Variation -- 3. Areas of Professional Research: A proposal for organizing the context of teacher education -- 4. How to Affect the Quality of Teacher Education: A four-year policy driven project implemented at university level -- 5. Learning from the Conservation of New Teachers -- Part 2. Teacher Practice -- 6. Inside Teacher Community: Representations of classroom practice -- 7. The Contemporary 'Basic Values of School': The emperors' new clothes? -- 8. Exploring the Landscape of Teachers' Tacitly Implied Ethics -- 9. Cultural Scaffolding: The arts and crafts -- 10. What is Actually Happening in Secondary Classrooms? The rhetoric and reality of curriculum reform -- Part 3. Higher Education -- 11. Students' Voices at a Portuguese University: Academic motivation and its relationship with academic success -- 12. Discourse Dissonance in University Policy Concerning Intellectual Property -- 13. When Angels Dance with Devils: What is sacred and profone in the professoriate? -- 14. Listening to Students' Voices: Self study of teacher education practice -- 15. UK Doctoral Degree Assessment Criteria: Towards transparency through exploring teacher thinking -- Part 4. Teacher Development -- 16. The Challenge to the Best: Research and the teacher -- 17. Tertiary Teacher Development: Connecting policy, personal theory and practice -- 18. Collaboration in Cross National Networks for Teacher Professional Development -- 19. Dilemmas of Democratic Education -- 20. When the Best Maps Cannot Guide Us: Exploring and understanding teacher vulnerability -- Part 5. Research and Theory -- 21. The Development of Teachers' and Students' Identities through Reflective Practices: Conceptual considerations -- 22. On a Pedagogy of Research Problems -- 23. Shared Basic Democratic Values by Means of Education? A deweyan perspective on some democratic illusions and necessities -- 24. Face to Face: Human dimensions in biographical interviews -- 25. Teachers Becoming Researchers: Reflections on professional development.