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Parr, Graham; Bulfin, Scott; Diamond, Fleur; Wood, Narelle; Owen, Ceridwen – Oxford Review of Education, 2020
As concerns spread about the capacity of teacher education programmes to prepare preservice teachers for entry into the teaching profession, literature and policy have begun to scrutinise the knowledge and skills of teacher educators. Some publications have focused on the professional development needed by teacher educators to align their teaching…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Teacher Educators, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
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Diamond, Fleur; Bulfin, Scott – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
The growing interest in the history of curriculum and pedagogy in subject English might be seen as a response to educational reforms that are replacing earlier, progressive understandings of subject English with narrowly technical understandings of teacher professional knowledge and practice. This essay emerges out of an intergenerational,…
Descriptors: Educational History, English Instruction, Educational Change, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Parr, Graham; Bulfin, Scott – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
Standards-based education reforms and intensified accountability regimes are now a feature of most countries' agendas to improve the quality of their teaching workforces. One of the direct consequences of these reforms is a requirement that teachers demonstrate their ongoing participation in forms of professional development or professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Writing (Composition), Story Telling
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Parr, Graham; Bulfin, Scott; Castaldi, Renee; Griffiths, Elisabeth; Manuel, Charmaine – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
Standards-based reforms of education favour narrow forms of teacher professional learning tied to generic standards and pre-determined, measurable outcomes. In high-stakes accountability-driven environments, in schools and initial teacher education programs, educators are rarely encouraged to inquire into their work and professional identities…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Teachers, Autobiographies, Personal Narratives
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Diamond, Fleur; Parr, Graham; Bulfin, Scott – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
Evidence has been accumulating for some time about the impact of standards-based education reforms on schools and schooling, but there has been little research investigating the influence of these reforms on university-based initial teacher education (ITE). This article critically inquiries into the effects of these reforms on an ITE co-teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, English Teachers
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Parr, Graham; Bellis, Natalie; Bulfin, Scott – English in Australia, 2013
This essay presents a critical, reflexive account of a twelve-month collaboration, when a practising secondary English teacher was seconded to work with a team of English teacher educators in a faculty of education in Melbourne. The collaboration was made possible by funding from DEEWR as part of the Teaching Teachers for the Future project (TTF).…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Teacher Educators, Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries