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Zhu, Jinfei; Zhu, Gang – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This paper traces 120 student teachers' professional identity transformation during practicums in China and US. By eliciting the participants' 240 written metaphors at the start and the end of the teaching practicums respectively, this study reveals the change of the embodied metaphors revolving around four arenas: (1) from idealistic expectations…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Practicums, Figurative Language, Mentors
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Quinn, Frances; Charteris, Jennifer; Fletcher, Peter; Parkes, Mitchell; Reyes, Vicente – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This paper explores metaphors as a process of professional learning, and as a research method to interrogate professional knowledge landscapes (PKLs) within the flexible space and time of online pre-service teacher education. The methodology comprised five pre-service teacher educators with different disciplinary areas of responsibility engaging…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Intellectual Disciplines
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Bofferding, Laura, Ed.; Wessman-Enzinger, Nicole, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
Over the past few decades there has been increased interest in how students and teachers think and learn about negative numbers from a variety of perspectives. In particular, there has been debate about when integers should be taught and how to teach them to best support students' learning. This book brings together recent work from researchers to…
Descriptors: Addition, Subtraction, Numeracy, Thinking Skills
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Richard, Veronica M.; Lahman, Maria K. E. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015
In this methodological discussion, the authors detail and reflect on the processes of using photo-elicitation interviewing as a way to align with positive qualitative methodologies, to gain access to participant beliefs and values, and to highlight participant voices through their choices of words and visuals. A review of the literature and an…
Descriptors: Photography, Interviews, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
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Schneider, Jenifer Jasinski – Action in Teacher Education, 2015
In this article, the author explores her observations of preservice teachers' technological literacy as it is often enacted across iterations of a writing methods course. Using personal examples and classroom anecdotes, the author argues that the construct of "digital native" is flawed and, instead, the author positions preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy, Writing Instruction, Methods Courses
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Shaw, Donita Massengill; Mahlios, Marc – Reading Psychology, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine pre-service elementary teachers' metaphors of teaching and literacy and then relate their metaphorical images of literacy to content presented in the reading methods course. Specifically, 52 participants generated responses to open-ended statements, "Teaching is..." and "Literacy is..." Results indicated…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Figurative Language, Beginning Teachers
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Gomez, Doris Santoro – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
This article builds a case for generating a new metaphor for teacher education that will sustain and nourish teacher intelligence. This intelligence requires that teacher educators prepare their students to be highly sensitive to dynamic classroom relations, to be aware of their positions as teachers, and to develop purposeful educational…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Figurative Language, Teacher Role, Educational Environment