Teaching What They Learn, Learning What They Live: How Teachers' Personal Histories Shape Their Professional Development

ISBN-13: 9781594515361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 190 str.

Brad Olsen; B-Rad Olsen

Opis

"Teaching What They Learn, Learning What They Live" explores the multiple social, political, and epistemological domains that comprise learning-to-teach. Based on a study of eight beginning English teachers at four different university teacher preparation programs, this book examines how beginning teachers personal dispositions and conceptions combine with their preparation programs professional knowledge and contexts to form their subsequent understandings of, and approaches toward, teaching. Brad Olsen recasts teacher learning as a continuous, situated, identity process in which prior experiences produce deeply embedded ways of viewing the world that go on to organize current/future experience into meaning. Since experience shapes learning and everyone acquires different sets of experience, no individual teacher s knowledge is exactly like another s. Yet Olsen also shows that the process by which teachers construct professional knowledge is common: the "what" of teacher knowledge varies, but the "how" remains the same."

Spis treści

"Brad Olsen richly portrays how beginning teachers draw on a range of knowledge sources-family, past schooling, and other personal experiences-to navigate the process of learning to teach. Teachers' personal resources and dispositions loom large here, mediating or trumping the lessons of formal teacher education. Olsen's illuminating account should be of interest to anyone seeking to influence what teachers know and do."

O autorze

Brad Olsen is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California-Santa Cruz. His teaching and research focus on teaching, teachers, and teacher development; critical pedagogy; English education; and sociolinguistics. He previously worked as a high school English teacher and administrator.