Inside teacher education : challenging prior views of teaching and learning /

This book takes an in-depth look at five future teachers in one teacher education program, analyzing and interpreting how they and their teacher educators learn from experience during both coursework and practicum experiences. Many assumptions about the complex challenges of teaching teachers are ca...

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Main Author: Bullock, Shawn Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2011]
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Summary:This book takes an in-depth look at five future teachers in one teacher education program, analyzing and interpreting how they and their teacher educators learn from experience during both coursework and practicum experiences. Many assumptions about the complex challenges of teaching teachers are called into question. Is the role of a teacher educator to synthesize research-based best practices for candidates to take to their field placements? Does the preservice practicum experience challenge or reinforce a lifetime of socialized experiences in schools? Must methods courses always be seen by most teacher candidates as little more than sites for collecting resources? Where and how do candidates construct professional knowledge of teaching? The data illustrate clearly that methods courses can be sites for powerful learning that challenges tacit assumptions about how and why we teach.--From publisher description.
Physical Description:ix, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183).
ISBN:9460914020
9789460914027
9460914012 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9789460914010 (pbk. : alk. paper)