Workplace Learning in Teacher Education International Practice and Policy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McNamara, Olwen (Editor), Murray, Jean (Editor), Jones, Marion (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; 10
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Teaching.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.

This book explores teacher workplace learning from four different perspectives: social policy, international comparators, multi-professional stances/perspectives and socio-cultural theory. First, it considers the policy and practice context of professional learning in teacher education in England, a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Framing Workplace Learning
• 2. Developing a Multi-layered System of Distributed Expertise: What Does Cultural Historical Theory Bring to Understandings of Workplace Learning in School-University Partnerships?- 3. Developing Knowledge for Qualified Professionals
• 4. Work-based, Accredited Professional Education: Insights from Medicine
• 5. ‘In This Together’: Developing University-Workplace Partnerships in Initial Professional Training for Practitioner Educational Psychologists
• 6. Disentangling What it Means to Be a Teacher in the Twenty-first Century: Policy and Practice in Teachers’ Continuing Professional Learning
• 7. Pulling Learning Through: Building the Profession’s Skills in Making Use of Workplace Coaching Opportunities
• 8. Empowering Teachers as Learners: Continuing Professional Learning Programmes as Sites for Critical Development in Pedagogical Practice
• 9. Lesson Study in a Performative Culture
• 10. The Policy Context of Teachers’ Workplace Learning: The Case for Research-based Professionalism in Teacher Education in England
• 11. Workplace Learning in Pre-service Teacher Education: An English Case Study
• 12. Work-based Learning in Teacher Education: A Scottish Perspective
• 13. ‘Learningplace’ Practices and Initial Teacher Education in Ireland: Knowledge Generation, Partnerships and Pedagogy
• 14. Teacher Learning in the Workplace in Initial Teacher Education in Portugal: Potential and Limits from a Student Teacher Perspective
• 15. Learning to Teach in Norway: A Shared Responsibility
• 16. Teaching as a Master’s Level Profession in Finland: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Solutions
• 17. Improving Workplace Learning in Teacher Education.