Connecting Policy and Practice: Challenges for Teaching and Learning in Schools and Universities

ISBN-13: 9780415362245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str.

Pam M. Denicolo; Michael Kompf

Opis

Looks at policy and pratice in higher education as well as schools. Many contributors from around the globe- international readership. Divided into clear sections with introductions to contextualize chapters. Written by memeber of ISATT - high profile organization The Interantional Study Association on Teachers and Teaching.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Michael Kompf, Pam Denicolo