Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice: International Research Perspectives

by Day; Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415262545
• ISBN10: 0415262542
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-11
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This book consists of fifteen research papers presented at the ISATT conference held in Dublin in 1999. It is a state of the art collection of contemporary research that focuses on Teacher Learning and Development in ten countries spanning three continents. The text seeks to create a new, more diverse international audience which traverses the more traditional geopolitical boundaries.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	vii
List of contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction	xv
SECTION 1 Changing understandings	1	(92)
Teaching in a box: emotional geographies of teaching	3	(23)
Andy Hargreaves
An investigation into the pedagogical identity of the teacher	26	(15)
Han A. Leeferink
Cees A. Klaassen
Educational research and teacher development: from ivory tower to tower of Babel	41	(17)
Jonathan Neufeld
Michael Kompf
Navigating through pedagogical practice: teachers' epistemological stance towards pupils	58	(15)
Jukka Husu
Teaching and learning in the new millennium	73	(20)
Peter Woods
SECTION 2 Sites and sources	93	(162)
Sites and sources of teachers' learning	95	(21)
Milbrey W. McLaughlin
Professional development as `interference'? Insights from the Reading Recovery in-service course	116	(14)
Jane Ashdown
School portfolio development: a way to access teacher knowledge	130	(16)
Cheryl J. Craig
Understanding and articulating teacher knowledge	146	(16)
John Loughran
Examining teachers' interactive cognitions using insights from research on teachers' practical knowledge	162	(19)
Paulien Meijer
Douwe Beijaard
Nico Verloop
SECTION 3 Reform and Renewal
How do we do it? Global rhetoric and the realities of teaching and learning in the developing world	181	(18)
Beatrice Avalos
Between professional autonomy and bureaucratic accountability: the self-managing school within a Norwegian context	199	(17)
Jorunn Moller
A critical first step in learning to teach: confronting the power and tenacity of student teachers' beliefs and preconceptions	216	(18)
Ruth Ethell
Marilyn McMeniman
Shared and subjective in curriculum making: lessons from Finnish teachers	234	(11)
Tapio Kosunen
Jyrki Huusko
A case study on the relationship between the innovative process of a secondary school and the reform of the Spanish national curriculum	245	(10)
Juana Maria Sancho
Fernando Hernandez
Index	255