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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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Lambirth, Andrew; Cabral, Ana; McDonald, Roger; Philpott, Chris; Brett, Ashley; Magaji, Adewale – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This article addresses the need for 'coherent, holistic frameworks offering insightful understandings as well as viable, connected and synergistic solutions to schools'. We describe a model which emerged from a research study developed in the context of a professional development course attended by more than 150 teachers from primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Leadership, Power Structure, Ethics
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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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Petrarca, Diana; Bullock, Shawn Michael – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This qualitative study explored how two early-career teacher educators analysed and challenged pedagogical approaches within their curriculum methods courses via the collaborative self-study methodology. Our critical friendship revealed similar problems of enactment and tensions in our pedagogies of teacher education, despite the differences in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators
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Choi, Tat Heung – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This article is based on the principle that teacher development is a life-long process when seeking to develop professional competencies. With the changing views of teacher education as background, the benefits to teachers associated with practice-oriented knowledge are predicated on a measure of empowerment through narration, self-expression and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Theory Practice Relationship
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Hunzicker, Jana – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Research shows that professional development alone does not provide adequate leadership preparation for teachers, yet many develop into established teacher leaders. The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers learn to exercise informal leadership in the schools and districts where they work. Eight elementary teachers who lived and worked…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Focus Groups, Faculty Development, Professional Development