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Student Teachers' Professional Development: Early Practice and Horizontal Networks as Ways to Bridge the Theory-Practice Gap
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Ribaeus, Katarina; Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Löfdahl Hultman, Annica – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
This article focuses on student teachers' professional development and explores how the students connect theory and practice in these processes. Data consist of 17 talks during weekly seminars with 15 preschool student teachers and a group of researchers both at campus and at the practicum placements during their first term. Initially, the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Theory Practice Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Personal Autonomy
Working with the Divides: Two Critical Axes in Development for Transformative Professional Practices
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Avery, Helen; Nordén, Birgitta – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The paper aims to provide a conceptual map of how to mediate between sustainability theory and practice in higher education and how disciplinary divides can be bridged. It further looks at issues linked to knowledge views and drivers for institutional change that affect opportunities for whole institution development promoting action…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Sustainability
Practitioner-Oriented Research as a Tool for Professional Development
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Johansson, Inge; Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
The aim of this study was to analyse how a model for practitioner-oriented research can be used as a tool for professional development in the preschool. The focus of interest is the type of knowledge that is formed when researchers and preschool staff cooperate on local projects, and what this new knowledge means for the images of professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Researchers, Questionnaires, Interviews
Participant Knowledge and the Meeting of Practitioners and Researchers
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Ronnerman, Karin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2005
Swedish teachers are currently expected to become more involved in school improvement based on the findings of research. One of the main goals of this work is to develop practice in its own contexts. Teachers become involved in action and research or, in other words, the combination of practice and theory. A central issue in this work is whether…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Researchers
Music Teachers--in Training and at Work: A Longitudinal Study of Music Teachers in Sweden
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Bladh, Stephan – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2004
In this paper the author makes a short presentation of an ongoing longitudinal research project in Sweden. However, he wants to focus on the theoretical perspective he has found fruitful for his understanding of music teachers' professional socialisation, and on the question whether the music teacher must also be a musician in order to possess…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Musicians, Foreign Countries
Programme Development. Paper Presentations: Session F.
2000
This document contains 35 papers from the program development section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following are among the papers included: "Using Quality Indicators to Create World-Class Curricula: From Concept to Application" (Curtis Finch,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Bachelors Degrees, Benchmarking