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MacDonald, Ron – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
Deciphering teachers' paths to their disciplinary professional identities can make important elements of their tacit knowledge explicit and available to their students.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Characteristics, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Hickey, Pamela J.; Lewis, Tarie – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2015
Effective disciplinary literacy instruction is an essential element in the education of multilingual learners. In this article, we provide an overview of disciplinary literacy as well as instructional approaches that support meaningful pedagogy for these students. We recognize that multilingual learners are already skilled at negotiating language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2010
This article shares the Body of Knowledge (BOK) as articulated in the new "Accreditation Documents for Undergraduate Programs in Family and Consumer Sciences" (2010). The purpose of sharing the BOK is to enhance awareness of the current knowledge base of family and consumer sciences (FCS), whether for new or lifelong AAFCS members, those exploring…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Family Life Education, Sciences, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Lebrun, Johanne; Lenoir, Yves; Oliveira, Anderson Araujo; Morin, Marie-Pier; McConnell, Anne Catherine – Educational Review, 2011
This article presents the results of a survey questionnaire involving 841 third and fourth year students enrolled in a French language Bachelors degree program in Elementary Education at four Quebec universities. The questionnaire dealt with pre-service elementary teachers' representations of the teaching and learning of four school subjects:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr.; Pinnegar, Stefinee – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
In this article the authors explore and critique education and teacher education as disciplines against the backdrop of teaching as a form of human flourishing connected to the virtue of eudaimonia, a kind of happiness. Their concern is with flourishing as a human being who teaches and in teaching expresses and moves toward fulfilling his or her…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Intellectual Disciplines
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Bullock, Shawn Michael – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The construction of a pedagogy of teacher education requires a sustained, systematic, and careful inquiry into one's own practice, predicated on the understanding that teaching is a discipline. This article begins by arguing that it is more appropriate to speak of a basis for knowing, rather than a knowledge base, for thinking about teaching and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Slay, Jill – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
In this paper I reflect on perspectives presented by John Settlage as he examines the truth of the proposition that "many teacher educators harbour deficit perspectives about their pre-service teachers, presuming that their lack of exposure to economically, ethnically and linguistically diverse settings renders them deficient as future educators."…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Information Technology, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Educators
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Corbett, Michael – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This paper is a reflection on the way that a background in sociocultural theory and research actually saved my teaching career by allowing me to shift from being a dispenser of knowledge to a cultural neophyte attempting to understand where he is. Teaching then is understood as a reading exercise which is undertaken in a particular place which…
Descriptors: Psychology, Intellectual Disciplines, Anthropology, Literacy
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Martin, Andrea K.; Russell, Tom – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Analysis of our own experiences teaching in preservice teacher education programs leads us to a range of insights, issues, and questions associated with the potential of seeing teaching as a discipline. We begin with the reality that teaching and teacher education appear to students as easy activities, while those who actually do them see them as…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intellectual Disciplines
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Macken-Horarik, Mary – Australian Journal of Education, 2011
A curriculum is a knowledge structure outlining what is to be learned in what order. The Australian curriculum for English emphasises creation of a "coherent" and "cumulative" "body of knowledge about how the English language works", with learning that is "portable and applicable to new settings across the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Differences, Stakeholders
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Wilson, Suzanne M. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
In this article, the author explores seven "unanswered questions" concerning the preparation of future teacher educator-researchers. She considers five questions concerning the substance of doctoral preparation: what the new generation of teacher-researchers would need to know about teacher education, relevant disciplines, research methodologies,…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teacher Education, Doctoral Programs, Intellectual Disciplines
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Downey, Matthew T.; Fischer, Fritz – History Teacher, 2000
Reviews three areas of history education reform: (1) teachers must be grounded in the content of their discipline; (2) more collaboration between teacher education and arts and sciences faculty; and (3) systems of evaluation and assessment for students and teachers. Describes the University of Northern Colorado program that provides teacher…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Kinach, Barbara M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2001
Describes ongoing case studies of U.S. teacher-education institutions that are reforming subject-matter preparation for prospective teachers. Discusses research goals, theoretical framework concerning levels of disciplinary understanding and the nature of knowledge and skills across university disciplines, and problems with the administrative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Research
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Shedd, John – History Teacher, 2000
Asserts that history departments in undergraduate programs should train secondary social studies teachers. Asserts that history professors are content experts and previously may have been successful secondary teachers, willing to experiment with teaching methods. Discusses how history departments can train secondary social studies teachers. (CMK)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Departments, Higher Education
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Stengel, Barbara S. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1997
Analyzes the distinction between an academic discipline and its corresponding school subject and how this affects curriculum development. Examines the range of possibilities for the relationship between the two concepts and interprets the meaning of each possibility. Describes a series of actual curricular proposals associated with each…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Principles