Making a Difference in Teacher Education Through Self-Study Studies of Personal, Professional and Program Renewal /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kosnik, Clare (Editor), Beck, Clive (Editor), Freese, Anne R. (Editor), Samaras, Anastasia P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices ; 2
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Teaching.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Curriculum Studies.

The challenges teacher educators are now facing are of a different nature from those of the past few decades. They have taken on an urgency and a magnitude not witnessed before. Strict government control of education is increasing, the social problems in the schools are more severe, the budget restr...

Table of Contents:

• How 20 Years of Self-Study Changed My Teaching
• From the Inside Out and the Outside In
• Using an Existential Form of Reflection to Understand My Transformation as a Teacher Educator
• Exploring the Concept of Dialogue in the Self-Study of Teaching Practices
• Transformation Through Self-Study
• From Self-Study to Collaborative Self-Study to Collaborative Self- Study of Collaboration
• Is Virtual Teaching, Real Teaching?
• In My Own Handwriting
• Theater of the Oppressed as an Instructional Practice
• Spheres of Learning in Teacher Collaboration
• Through a Murky Mirror
• Unsquaring Teacher Education
• Learning About Teaching
• Course Assignments for Self and Program Renewal
• The Impact of a Preservice Teacher Education Program on Language Arts Teaching Practices.