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Colmenares, Erica Eva – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This article attends to student teachers' 'stuck moments,' or emotional moments of crisis, in a social justice-oriented teacher education program (SJTE). It seeks to problematise the familiar tendency of viewing student teachers' stuck moments as symptomatic of the theory-practice gap. By troubling both the representational logic that undergirds…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teaching Experience, Student Attitudes, Theory Practice Relationship
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Wexler, Lindsay Joseph – Professional Development in Education, 2020
This study investigates the role of educative mentors as two novices learn to teach, following them from their yearlong student teaching (2015-2016) through their first-year teaching (2016-2017). During student teaching, each novice was paired with a mentor teacher who received preparation and support to engage in educative mentoring practices.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Role, Beginning Teachers, Student Teachers
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Walters, Sue; Heilbronn, Ruth; Daly, Caroline – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Ethics education exists in most professions internationally, yet is less prevalent in teacher education. This article reports on research exploring how ethics education is provided in university courses of initial teacher education (ITE) in England that was conducted as the second phase of an international survey study which considered the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education
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Ulvik, Marit; Riese, Hanne – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This article presents a case study aiming at deepening the understanding of action research as a tool in professional development in pre-service teacher education. The case is the practice of action research in a teacher education programme for secondary school teachers in Norway. While there has been limited research on consequences of inquiry,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Case Studies
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Lofthouse, Rachel; Thomas, Ulrike – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Teachers are often encouraged to work in partnerships to support their professional development. In this article we focus on three forms of working partnerships based in English secondary schools. Each has an intended function of developing teaching practices. The cases of mentoring, coaching and an adapted lesson study come from both initial…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Partnerships in Education, Mentors
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White, Elizabeth – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This paper investigates the experiences of secondary teachers within their workplace as they take on the role of leading subject knowledge development days for small groups of student-teachers through a case-study approach. Semi-structured interviews, the reflective journals of these teachers and the evaluations of the days by the student-teachers…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Educators, Professional Identity, Secondary School Teachers