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Saada, Najwan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
This multiple case study explores the obstacles to preparing prospective Arab teachers to deal with values/moral issues, from the perspective of Arab teacher educators in one Arab college of teacher education in Israel. In-depth interviews with 13 teacher educators were conducted and analysed. Four obstacles were reported by teacher educators. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Arabs
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Brownlee, Joanne; Curtis, Elizabeth; Davey Chesters, Sarah; Cobb-Moore, Charlotte; Spooner-Lane, Rebecca; Whiteford, Chrystal; Tait, Gordon – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
Using epistemic perspectives as a theoretical framework, this study investigated Australian pre-service teachers' perspectives about knowing, knowledge and children's learning, as they engaged in a semester-long unit on philosophy in the classroom. During the field experience component of the unit, pre-service teachers were required to teach at…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Yayli, Demet – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Since the language used by people has the potential to signal a membership in a discourse community, it is significant that prospective teachers speak the appropriate social language to be able to claim a strong membership in the community of teachers. This qualitative study explores a group of pre-service teachers' professional language use and…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Professional Development
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Bullock, Shawn Michael – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The construction of a pedagogy of teacher education requires a sustained, systematic, and careful inquiry into one's own practice, predicated on the understanding that teaching is a discipline. This article begins by arguing that it is more appropriate to speak of a basis for knowing, rather than a knowledge base, for thinking about teaching and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Berk, Dawn; Hiebert, James – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
In this paper, we describe a model for systematically improving the mathematics preparation of elementary teachers, one lesson at a time. We begin by identifying a serious obstacle for teacher educators: the absence of mechanisms for developing a shareable knowledge base for teacher preparation. We propose our model as a way to address this…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Competencies, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Berry, Amanda – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
This paper explores an aspect of the knowledge of teaching required by teacher educators and how that knowledge might be developed if teaching (about teaching) is to be conceptualised as a distinct and important field in its own right--with its own forms of knowledge, ways of working and perspectives on the world. The paper focuses on…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Knowledge Base for Teaching, Intellectual Disciplines, Teacher Educators
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Loughran, John – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The background to this paper is based on the ongoing need to place more attention on the importance of teaching. The aim in so doing is to lead to a better valuing of teaching which, in the case of this paper, is through an exploration of the notion of teaching as a discipline. There are differing views about that which constitutes a discipline…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intellectual Disciplines
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Martin, Andrea K.; Russell, Tom – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Analysis of our own experiences teaching in preservice teacher education programs leads us to a range of insights, issues, and questions associated with the potential of seeing teaching as a discipline. We begin with the reality that teaching and teacher education appear to students as easy activities, while those who actually do them see them as…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intellectual Disciplines
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Eilam, Billie; Poyas, Yael – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Why is it so challenging to provide pre-service teachers with adequate competence to cope with the complexity of the classroom context? Three key difficulties are frequently reported as reducing the effectiveness of teacher education programs: the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about teaching, the application of theories to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Processes, Intervention