Narrative Ecologies: Teachers as Pedagogical Toolmakers

by Keith Turvey

Overview

In recent years there has been significant investment by policy makers in the potential of technological tools to transform learning and teaching across a range of professional practitioner groups; education, nursing and social care. There remain, however, outstanding issues concerning the ways educators and professional practitioners harness the p

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136775994
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Keith Turvey is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Brighton, UK.

Table of Contents

1: Teachers not Technologies in Control 2: Teachers as Pedagogical Toolmakers 3: Re-presenting Professional Learning; Mind the Gap! 4: A Teacher-centred Narrative Ecology 5: Maria’s Story; Responding to Children’s Needs 6: Laura’s Story; Inspired by her Mother 7: Joe’s Story; Convergent Social Networking and Professional Practices 8: Karen’s Story; Prioritising Subject Knowledge 9: Heather’s Story; Pragmatism in Practice 10: Storying Teachers’ Experiences: What can we Learn?

Editorial Reviews

"What Keith has contributed to the teacher education canon is a design for a methodological and pedagogical approach to teachers' learning that will inspire teacher educators to observe more closely the individual student’s pedagogical activity within a complex technical and socio-cultural ecology" - Dr Christina Preston, ITTE Newsletter

"What Keith has contributed to the teacher education canon is a design for a methodological and pedagogical approach to teachers' learning that will inspire teacher educators to observe more closely the individual student’s pedagogical activity within a complex technical and socio-cultural ecology." - Christina Preston, ITTE Newsletter

"This book wins out over others in its holistic and nuanced approach to a number of key educational issues, namely the potential of technological tools to transform learning. More importantly, however, Turvey reminds us that for such tools to be harnessed effectively we need to put the teacher, not the tools, at the centre of this enterprise. For new technologies to work we must develop new models of interaction between the technology, the user and the pedagogic and biographical contexts in which they are to be used. Turvey has done this. The rich array of ideas and applications presented in this very usable book also demonstrate the important contribution university research and theory play in the education of pre- and in-service teachers." - David Stephens, Research in Education

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