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A.-T. Arstorp – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This study is a Cultural Historical Activity Theory analysis of the tensions between object and motive at the political, institutional and project management levels for five digitalisation projects aimed at integrating professional digital competence (PDC) in Norwegian teacher education (TE). The study is inspired by ethnography and builds on a…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competencies, Social Theories
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Ertsas, Turid I.; Irgens, Eirik J. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
In this conceptual article, we draw on a graded theory concept as well as two exemplary cases to discuss the role of professional theorizing in teachers' practice. We present a model that can illustrate how a non-dichotomous, graded and processual understanding of theory may help overcome a split between theory, on the one hand, and practice, on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Knowledge Level
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Soreide, Gunn Elisabeth – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This article shows how five Norwegian female elementary school teachers use narrative resources to construct and negotiate several possible teacher identities. The aim of the article is to illuminate how teacher identities can be narratively constructed and understood, and not to define what identity Norwegian teachers as a group or individuals…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Personal Narratives, Teacher Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
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Carlsen, Arne – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
This paper starts from the observation that particularly rewarding parts of a set of research interviews were all accompanied by laughter. The interviews in question inquired into organizational practice as sites for individual and collective "becoming", conceived as a set of ongoing authoring acts situated in everyday work. The research…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Interviews, Affective Behavior, Hermeneutics
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Postholm, May Britt – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
The background of the work presented in this article is that for quite some time project work has been a method of working that is more theoretically described than it is put into practice. The aim of this text is to show how a teacher can function as a facilitator or a guide for the students within project-directed teaching and how this setting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Role
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Fottland, Helg – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
By evoking the concept of memory pictures, the author recalls her early years as a teacher. Rather than calling herself a beginning teacher, she characterizes herself as a fledgling teacher to capture the insecurity associated with the first years of teaching. This experience is narrated through five memory pictures: (1) the new school's many…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Educators