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Grounding Practice in Scholarship, Grounding Scholarship in Practice: Knowledge of a Mathematics Teacher Educator-Researcher
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Chauvot, Jennifer B. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
Despite the acknowledged complexity of the expertise of teacher educators (Cochran-Smith, M. (2003). Learning and unlearning: the education of teacher educators. "Teaching and Teacher Education," 19, 5--28), there is limited research attending to what teacher educators need to know and how they develop this expertise. This self-study draws from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Researchers, Teacher Educators, Research Methodology
Backing the Right Horse: Teacher Education, Sociocultural Analysis and Literacy in Rural Education
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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
Beacons of Light, Rays, or Sun Catchers? A Case Study of the Positioning of Literacy Teachers and Their Knowledge in Neoliberal Times
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Hibbert, Kathryn M.; Heydon, Rachel M.; Rich, Sharon J. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This paper reports on a case study of a "lead literacy teacher" initiative in one Canadian province. This initiative is related to a ''minority world'' trend in teacher in-service that seeks to develop "experts" in a field with the intent that such experts can help other teachers to raise student achievement for the betterment…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Educational Change, Literacy, Foreign Countries