This article focuses on teacher educators' role and how it was enacted and experienced by teachers and leaders in a school-based development project. The arena for the teachers' professional development was the school, and teacher educators at one teacher-education institution and three schools took part in the research. Teacher educators,…

This paper considers how student teachers, mentor teachers and university tutors who participate in collaborative settings for joint reflection on practical teaching situations during students' practicum perceive their roles and opportunities for learning in these settings. We are also interested in how the participants experience this kind of…

As many other countries around the world, Sweden is currently facing an urgent need for new teachers. Creating sound work environments that can retain beginning teachers in the profession--as well as attract new ones--is one way to address the problem. In order to accomplish this task, research must be able to reflect the complex nature of work…

Franz Kafka's 1912 novella "The Metamorphosis" provides an analogy for a consideration of the process of teacher identity formation and performance. Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed into a giant beetle. He faced a complete loss of identity as he lost connection with the micro-political space that formed the context of his former role…

Within the field of social studies education, disciplinary models of teaching, such as approximating a historian in asking students to "think historically," have been the emphasis of countless professional development and teacher education programs. This movement, however, has focused largely on the use of traditional primary documents and…

Public debates about the role of teachers and teacher performance place teachers at the center of a range of national and local discourses. The notion of teacher professional identity, therefore, framed in a variety of ways, engages people across social contexts, whether as educators, parents, students, taxpayers, voters or consumers of news and…