Being a Teacher Educator: Research-Informed Methods for Improving Practice

by Anja Swennen (Editor), Elizabeth White (Editor)

Overview

This collection offers a timely and wide-ranging contribution to the research-informed improvement of the work of teacher educators. Drawing on original research studies conducted across a range of European countries, Canada, and Israel, contributors offer insight into not only questions of curriculum and programme development, research, and professional development, but also their day-to-day experience as teacher educators, student teachers, and mentors in schools.

Themes explored include teaching and working with students, teacher educators as researchers, the partnership work of teacher educators, the professional development needs of teacher educators, professional development approaches for improving teacher education, and teacher educator empowerment.

Arising from the international community of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), and drawing together theory and practice, this book offers a unique survey of the contributions of teacher educators and charts a path for future directions of the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367518592
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2020
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anja Swennen has retired from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she was a teacher educator and researcher. She is currently co-editor of the European Journal of Teacher Education.

Elizabeth White is Principal Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Professional and Work-Related Learning, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Table of Contents

List of figures vii

List of tables viii

List of editors ix

List of contributors x

Acknowledgements xiv

Preface xv

1 Introduction to Being a Teacher Educator Elizabeth White Anja Swennen 1

2 Being a reflective teacher educator: professionalism or pipe dream? Paul Holdsworth 10

3 Understanding the reflective process through self-study: a teacher educator's journey towards continuous professional development Karl Attard 27

4 Developing as teacher educators: lessons learned from student voices during practice and research Tom Russell Maria Assunçao Flores 43

5 Teacher educator collaboration and a pedagogy of teacher education: practice architectures, professional learning, praxis, and production David Powell 56

6 "Are we doing the right tiling?": challenges teacher educators face when taking the risk of opening up possibilities for students Monique Leijgraaf 72

7 Old learning, new learning: teacher educators as enquiring professionals Mhairi C. Beaton 86

8 A professional social network as a platform for teacher educators' professional development Tami Seifert Smadar Bar-Tal 99

9 International semi-collaborative research initiative: a critical reflection of the research process Leah Shagrir 112

10 Learning from stories about the practice of teacher educators in partnerships between schools and higher education institutions Elizabeth White Miranda Timmermans Claire Dickerson 126

11 Teacher educator as researcher: striving towards a greater visibility for teacher education Ann MacPhail 142

12 Brave Research as a means to transform teacher education Anja Swennen David Powell 155

13 Epilogue: lessons from this book and next steps in developing the profession of teacher educators Anja Swennen Elizabeth White 171

Index 179