Teachers as Learners Critical Discourse on Challenges and Opportunities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kwo, Ora (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education ; 26
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Teaching.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Policy and Politics.

In movements of educational reform across the world, educators are forging new roles, identities and relationships. Leadership is of course vital, but needs to be rooted in a capacity for learning. This volume responds to some of the tensions and paradoxes typically associated with educational refor...

Table of Contents:

• Research Stances on Learning and Teaching
• Research and Teacher Learning: Taking an Inquiry Stance
• Telling Stories: Understanding Teachers’ Identity in a Context of Curriculum Innovation
• Understanding Korean Children’s L2 Dialogue Journals: Towards a Model of Creative Apprenticeship for Integrating Teaching and Learning
• Teaching about Indigenous Forms of Knowledge: Insights from Non-Indigenous Teachers of Visual Arts Education in New Zealand
• Initial Teacher Education
• Mediating Inquiry: Using Videos of Exemplary Teaching in Pre-Service Teacher Education
• Working and Learning Under Pressure: Reflexivity on Teacher Experience and Development
• From SET to STELT: Seeking the Meaning of Learning as a Community for Curriculum Development
• Continuing Professional Development
• Lost in Translation: Mentors Learning to Participate in Competing Discourses of Practice
• The Role of the Headteacher in Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development
• Mentoring as a Key Strategy in the Development of a Community of Reflective Practitioners in Tertiary Education
• Policy Concerns for the Teaching Profession
• Lessons on Reform: A Story of Teaching as Lived Practice *
• Professional Standards: A Context for Teachers as Learners in Victorian Schools
• Professional Education for Teachers: Lessons from Other Professions
• Conclusion
• Teachers as Learners: A Moral Commitment.