This paper explains one university's approach to explicit modeling of practice. It briefly outlines the university's conception of episteme and phronesis, then explores the university's views of explicit modeling, which is seen as operating concurrently at two levels. At one level, it is about teacher educators "doing" in their practice…

This paper explores teacher education through a self-study approach to researching practice. The development of the notion of tensions--in this case, the tension between confidence and uncertainty--is used as a way of understanding the complex nature of teaching and learning about teaching with a focus on teacher education practice. The paper is…