Teacher Education as an Ongoing Professional Trajectory: Implications for Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783031286193 / Angielski

Denise Mifsud; Stephen Day

Opis

This edited book provides a critical re-reading of the concept of teacher education, in addition to a re-thinking of the sole focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE), with implications for education policy, theory, and practice. This book presents new investigations that explore the concept of teacher education from ITE to retirement and how this is being enacted within the various distinct European and international education contexts. It demonstrates teaching and teacher education as a deeply contested field within European education and within the different national contexts of Europe. Contributions in this book expose teacher education as a continuum of teacher learning that is set off from the beginning of the teachers’ own schooling and continues throughout their entire teaching career. The chapters deal with various issues, namely teacher induction and mentoring; teacher agency; teachers as researchers; the role of the head teacher; schools as learning communities; and distinct ITE practices. It is intended for postgraduate students and researchers with an interest in teaching and teacher education, educational policies and politics, and educational philosophy, as well as practitioners.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Rethinking the concept of teacher education

2. Teacher preparation, practicum and partnership – new challenges, new paradigms

3. The Scottish Teacher Induction Scheme – A framework that supports newly qualified teachers’ or a bureaucratic demand?

4. Teacher induction within the teacher education continuum

5. The induction of Newly Qualified Teachers: A coherent approach towards quality teacher education

6. Mentoring Matters: Nordic Perspectives on Induction of New Teachers.

7. The changing role of the headteacher in Scottish education: Implications for career-long teacher education

8. Re-conceptualising teachers’ professional identity as an evolving, complex and dynamic multi-dimensional construct

9. Teacher agency and reflexivity in a neoliberal educational world

10. Preservice teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs on their role as teachers during the practicum.

11. We do not need research, we are practitioners: The dialectical relationship between teachers and research

12. Turning schools into learning organisations for teachers

13. The Story of a 21st C. Learning Organization and Its Use of a Critical 6th Discipline

14.  Colin Calleja, Denise Mifsud & Michelle Attard Tonna, University of Malta

O autorze

Dr Denise Mifsud is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Management and Governance in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. She has many years of practitioner experience in education settings in both teaching and top-level leadership roles within the Ministry for Education, Malta. She previously held a full-time lecturing post at the University of the West of Scotland as well as being a part-time lecturer at the University of Malta. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research within the same university. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Stirling in 2015. Research areas of interest include educational policy analysis, generation, reception and enactment; critical leadership theories, with a particular interest in educational leadership, especially distributed forms; school networks and educational reform; teacher education; teacher leadership; power relations; Foucauldian theory; Actor-Network theory, as well as qualitative research methods, with a particular focus on narrative, as well as creative and unconventional modes of data representation. She is a member of several professional organizations, in addition to being an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is an elected member of the BELMAS Council, as well as co-convenor of the Critical Educational Leadership & Policy Studies BELMAS RIG, and also co-convenor of the Social Theory and Education BERA SIG. She has published in several international top-rated journals, in addition to monographs and edited volumes. She has won awards by the AERA, EERA and SERA for her publications.

Dr Stephen Day is the Head of Division of Education at the University of the West of Scotland. He has a background in biomedical sciences and science education, where he publishes on aspects of science teacher education and curriculum policy. Dr Day was the president of the Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) from 2017 to 2019 and continues to be an active member of the SERA Executive. He currently sits on the Scottish Council of Deans of Education and is one of three Universities Scotland representatives on the governing council of the General Teaching Council for Scotland. His research interests are varied and range across areas of teacher education such as teacher induction, the handling of socio-scientific discussion; constructivist approaches to learning for sustainability; the learning and teaching of ideas that challenge pupils in the sciences; and models of coaching and mentoring for beginning science teachers and Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Tutors. His recent interests have taken him on a tangent in terms of the application of social theory in education where he has recently focused on the datafication of education, with a specific interest in school improvement. His recent publications are an eclectic mix of a Foucauldian exploration of student satisfaction, educational leadership, the qualitative characteristics of accounting standards and reflective practice in initial teacher education. He is a member of several professional association such as the British Educational Research Association, the Association of Science Education and the European Educational Research Association and has presented his research at several educational Research Conferences such as the European Conference for Educational Research, the Children’s Identity and Citizenship European Association and the Educational Studies Association Ireland conferences. He actively supports doctoral students in areas of his research interest and professional practice