Educating Future Teachers: Innovative Perspectives in Professional Experience

Educating Future Teachers: Innovative Perspectives in Professional Experience
Title Educating Future Teachers: Innovative Perspectives in Professional Experience PDF eBook
Author Jeana Kriewaldt
Publisher Springer
Pages 256
Release 2017-09-04
Genre Education
ISBN 9811054843

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This book describes, problematises and theorises professional practice research in a range of Australian settings to provide evidence of robust, wide-ranging and contemporary approaches to professional experience in initial teacher education. It presents the latest research and evidence from those currently involved in innovative programmes designed to provide alternatives to meet local challenges during professional experience in teacher education. As the professional experience process is framed quite differently across Australian teacher education programmes, these cross-institutional accounts of collaboration, innovation and success make a major contribution to the field, both nationally and internationally. The book was developed from a research workshop funded by an Australian Association for Research in Education grant and organised by the Teacher Education Research and Innovation Special Interest Group.

Innovation and Accountability in Teacher Education

Innovation and Accountability in Teacher Education
Title Innovation and Accountability in Teacher Education PDF eBook
Author Claire Wyatt-Smith
Publisher Springer
Pages 340
Release 2018-10-24
Genre Education
ISBN 9811320268

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This is the foundational book for the new series, Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability. The book canvasses research, practice and policy perspectives in teacher education across diverse geographic, social and political contexts. It explores the lifespan of teacher development from initial preparation through to graduate classroom practice as it occurs in an intensifying culture of standards and regulation. The characterization of initial teacher education (ITE) in a crucible of change permeates throughout the book. The chapters open up new ways of thinking about innovation and accountability in ITE and the professionalization of teaching, exploring fundamental questions, such as “Who are the actors in teacher preparation and how do they interact? How can we learn about the quality of teacher education? Where can we hear the voices of teacher educators and preservice teachers, as well as school-based teacher educators? What are the new and emerging roles of others in teacher education who have not been involved previously, including employing authorities?” (p. 22). While the book provides responses to these and other provocative questions, it also offers new insights into innovative teacher education from a wide range of policy and practice contexts.

Reconstructing the Work of Teacher Educators

Reconstructing the Work of Teacher Educators
Title Reconstructing the Work of Teacher Educators PDF eBook
Author Theresa Bourke
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 288
Release 2022-08-30
Genre Education
ISBN 9811929041

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This book examines agentic approaches by which teacher educators navigate a highly regulated environment. It investigates how teacher educators are responding to such regulation by employing approaches such as exploratory and case study research designs. This book analyzes qualitative and quantitative data to understand the diverse, innovative and critical perspectives of teacher educators who are guided by state and federal level initiatives to enhance the quality Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs. Prominent educational theoretical perspectives are also used in this book to inform data analysis and to illuminate the empirically based findings. This book showcases research-informed insights for the global education community from leading researchers from across a number of teacher education institutions, locally and otherwise. By adopting an ‘activist’ approach, this book positions teacher educators’ research and contribution to the field as agentive and pro-active.

Professionalism and Teacher Education

Professionalism and Teacher Education
Title Professionalism and Teacher Education PDF eBook
Author Amanda Gutierrez
Publisher Springer
Pages 235
Release 2019-05-15
Genre Education
ISBN 9811370028

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This book explores how educators are proactively working to reclaim teacher professionalism by engaging in exemplary practice and promoting quality education for all. It examines voices in contemporary Australian teacher education and how professionalism can contribute to achieving the multiplicity of purposes in education. The work of contemporary teachers and teacher educators, and perceptions about this work, have changed significantly. In recent times, governments have identified key issues linked to the quality of teachers, as presented in multiple inquiries, creating shifts in public policy and increasing regulation. Educators must work towards improving public and policy maker perceptions of teaching as a profession. Teacher educators make an important contribution in engaging in ongoing scholarship and debate that examine research and practice and speak back to managerial discourses on professionalism. It is through this work that educators shape and re-shape understanding of what it means to be a professional.

School-University Partnerships—Innovation in Initial Teacher Education

School-University Partnerships—Innovation in Initial Teacher Education
Title School-University Partnerships—Innovation in Initial Teacher Education PDF eBook
Author Ondine Jayne Bradbury
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 160
Release 2022-10-30
Genre Education
ISBN 9811950571

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This book showcases models of Australian school–university partnerships which, in their development, respond to, and aim to move beyond the principles and practices of current partnership mandates in initial teacher education. Supported by government policy, these partnerships reveal innovative ways of working across multiple stakeholder groups within a range of unique school-university partnership contexts. Each of the examples of school-university partnerships within this edited collection provide insights into the power and potential of cross-sectoral vision, collaboration and growth, drawing upon research evidence and impact data that points to the mutual benefits experienced by all stakeholders. Across its ten chapters, this book explores various examples of partnerships, and forms an important reference for all initial teacher education providers, schools, and educational stakeholders; as school–university partnerships necessitate the way these sectors connect, learn from one another, and inform future practice.

Tertiary Education in a Time of Change

Tertiary Education in a Time of Change
Title Tertiary Education in a Time of Change PDF eBook
Author Tricia McLaughlin
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 218
Release 2020-06-16
Genre Education
ISBN 9811558833

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This book shares exemplary teaching and learning practices from the tertiary sector, and addresses important issues concerning quality, scholarship and innovation in teaching and learning in tertiary settings. It takes on classic issues regarding curricula, technologies and assessment, but approaches them from novel perspectives and using a variety of methodological approaches. Its chapters explore innovative and cutting-edge ideas in tertiary education. Readers will be both challenged and inspired to investigate the ideas discussed further.

Theory to Practice in Teacher Education

Theory to Practice in Teacher Education
Title Theory to Practice in Teacher Education PDF eBook
Author Christine Grima-Farrell
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 131
Release 2019-08-21
Genre Education
ISBN 981329910X

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This book offers a theoretically and empirically robust account of what is known about the effective approaches that translate theory to practice in teacher education, presenting evidence from case studies from a diverse range of contexts informed by various methodological foundations. It also provides accounts that support teacher educators involved in both school and university based teacher education. The book offers insights into the translation of theory to practice from the long history of teacher education, the benefit of diverse approaches in terms of the effectiveness of initial teacher education, and the impact of professional standards.