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Neel, Michael A. – Teaching Education, 2017
Recently, scholars have called for a practice-based framework for teacher education and some have argued more narrowly for a framework built around "core practices of teaching." These efforts, in part, are intended to make teacher education practice public and available for collective improvement. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design
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Secret, Mary; Bryant, Nita L.; Cummings, Cory R. – Journal of Educators Online, 2017
Our paper describes the design and delivery of an online interdisciplinary social science research methods course (ISRM) for graduate students in sociology, education, social work, and public administration. Collaborative activities and learning took place in two types of computer-mediated learning environments: a closed Blackboard course…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Social Science Research
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Lowenstein, Ethan – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2010
This article seeks to build on current and emerging conceptions of teacher expertise as they relate to education for civic engagement and social awareness in the university classroom context. I explore the notion of teaching tensions between vulnerability and authority, authenticity and distance, safety and challenge, disclosure and neutrality,…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Curriculum Design, Teacher Education Curriculum, Social Change
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Henning, Elizabeth; Swart, Rhona – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
An experiment in English-as-a-Second-Language pedagogy in a South African university's teacher education program looked at the effects of students' participation in construction of the course syllabus. Results are discussed from three perspectives: learning theory; the culture of learning; and cognitive style. The metaphor of mental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development