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David Sandles, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2024
With an alchemical verve, educators have been shaping the very direction of students' lives since time immemorial. With millions of teachers currently serving in the Tk-12 sector and millions more serving in higher education spaces, the need for quality educator development is essential. For Tk-12 educators, while there are teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness
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Sanford, Kathy; Robertson, Kerry; Hopper, Timothy; Collyer, Vivian; Lancaster, Laura – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2020
A common complaint about teacher education programs is that it follows a linear model--where theory and teaching skills are learned at the university and then applied in practicum experiences--that is inadequate and does not accurately represent teacher candidates'(TC) experiences (Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Korthagen, Loughran & Russell,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Education Programs, Practicums, Theory Practice Relationship
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Albers, Peggy; Flint, Amy Seely; Matthews, Mona – Global Education Review, 2019
This longitudinal ethnographic study involved a professional development project, Project Partnerships Achieve Literacy (Project PAL) in South Africa, with eight rural foundation phase teachers who taught Reception (kindergarten) through grade three (R-3). This Project was designed to support teachers in an under-resourced school as they learned…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Aesthetic Education, Elementary School Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools
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Vasquez, Vivian Maria – Theory Into Practice, 2015
Although technology is most often heralded an intrinsic efficiency, the process of using technology to create a text is full of opportunities to learn new information, create and distribute knowledge, and engage in identity work. This article explores how the production of 1 such technological text, a podcast, offered students opportunities to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Multimedia Materials, Hypermedia, Global Education
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King, Fiona – Teacher Development, 2016
Teacher professional learning is widely accepted as a mediating factor for enhancing student outcomes. While many teachers across the world engage in professional development (PD) to enhance their professional learning, what is less evident is how to support that learning to result in change following teacher PD. Acknowledging that not all teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Transformative Learning, Program Effectiveness
Blumenreich, Megan; Falk, Beverly – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
This article reports on a study of teachers who have engaged in systematic research about their practice. It describes the inquiries of two urban teachers into challenges and dilemmas common to many who work with diverse groups of students. The accounts presented reveal how teachers are able to construct new knowledge about teaching when they…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Educational Practices
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Manrique, María Soledad; Sánchez Abchi, Verónica – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This contribution explores the relationship between teaching practices, teaching discourses and teachers' implicit representations and mental models and the way these dimensions change through teacher education (T.E). In order to study these relationships, and based on the assumptions that representations underlie teaching practices and that T.E…
Descriptors: Reflection, Transformative Learning, Educational Practices, Intervention