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Newman, Linda; Mowbray, Susan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
This paper describes a process in which early childhood professionals, who were novice researchers, engaged in their own research projects in collaboration with academics through a practitioner inquiry group. The aim of the project was to introduce the concepts and practices of practitioner enquiry, and learn about, plan and implement a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Early Childhood Education, Research Projects, Teacher Researchers
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Chambers, Gary N.; Hobson, Andrew J.; Tracey, Louise – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Retention in initial teacher preparation (ITP) and the teaching profession, in England and elsewhere, has been the subject of numerous articles in academic and professional journals. Whilst a number of common findings are beginning to emerge from research on this subject, notably on the causes of student teacher withdrawal, studies have tended to…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes, Dropout Attitudes
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Strong-Wilson, Teresa – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
As new technologies promise to be an enduring feature of the landscape of teachers' work, we consider how teachers implicitly bring stories forward into their classroom explorations with new media as a part of their "informal learning". By "stories" is meant specific classroom texts as well as preferred teacher practices with those texts. The…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Curriculum Research, Action Research, Reader Response
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Sandretto, Susan; Ballard, Keith; Burke, Pam; Kane, Ruth; Lang, Catherine; Schon, Pamela; Whyte, Barbara – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article presents conceptualizations of social justice expressed by a group of teacher educators in New Zealand and seeks to reinforce the importance of placing social justice on the agenda of teacher education. It is presented in the form of a reader's theater script designed to elicit discussion and encourage others to reflect critically on…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Scripts, Teacher Education, Educational Change
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Watson, Cate – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
The importance of the concept of professional identity lies in its relationship to professional knowledge and action, but these links are complex. A traditional notion of identity is of something essential about ourselves, a fixed and stable core of "self". More recently, however, identity has been seen as an ongoing and performative…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Kynigos, Chronis; Argyris, Michael – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This paper describes research into the beliefs and practices established over time by teachers, who had been engaged in an innovative "mathematical investigations" school program, based on the use of exploratory software. The theoretical framework perceives the teacher as an active mediator of innovation, constructing and reorganizing a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes