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Levenson, Esther – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2015
This study explores the relationship between participating in a graduate course aimed at enhancing teachers' theoretical and practical knowledge of mathematical creativity and one teacher's changing perspectives regarding mathematical creativity and tasks that may occasion mathematical creativity. Results indicated that perceptions of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Graduate Study, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Creativity
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Laschke, Christin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
How individual characteristics affect the acquisition of knowledge in teacher education has been widely unexplored thus far. The "Teacher Education and Development Study--Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M)" provides a database for examining this research question across countries. Based on the Taiwanese and German sample of TEDS-M,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Individual Characteristics
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Griggs, Gerald; Ward, Gavin – Curriculum Journal, 2012
Within the UK, physical education finds itself, as a curriculum subject, in a contested space with felt pressures from competing discourses and policy areas. This paper contests that over time within this nexus, physical education has become disconnected in four specific ways: from the wider movement culture, from other curriculum subjects, within…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Education
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr.; Pinnegar, Stefinee – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
In this article the authors explore and critique education and teacher education as disciplines against the backdrop of teaching as a form of human flourishing connected to the virtue of eudaimonia, a kind of happiness. Their concern is with flourishing as a human being who teaches and in teaching expresses and moves toward fulfilling his or her…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Intellectual Disciplines