Connecting Policy and Practice : challenges for teaching and learning in schools and universities / edited by Michael Kompf, Pam Denicolo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kompf, Michael, editor.

Denicolo, Pam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis, 2005.

Summary:

This volume delivers a selection of papers presented at an international teaching conference on issues of theory and practice. These key topics will be of interest to novice and veteran teachers, policy makers and all education professionals.

Contents:

Part 1. Teacher Education

1. Learning to be a Teacher: Teacher education and the development of professional identity

2. Teacher Learning and the Theory of Variation

3. Areas of Professional Research: A proposal for organizing the context of teacher education

4. How to Affect the Quality of Teacher Education: A four-year policy driven project implemented at university level

5. Learning from the Conservation of New Teachers

Part 2. Teacher Practice

6. Inside Teacher Community: Representations of classroom practice

7. The Contemporary 'Basic Values of School': The emperors' new clothes?

8. Exploring the Landscape of Teachers' Tacitly Implied Ethics

9. Cultural Scaffolding: The arts and crafts

10. What is Actually Happening in Secondary Classrooms? The rhetoric and reality of curriculum reform

Part 3. Higher Education

11. Students' Voices at a Portuguese University: Academic motivation and its relationship with academic success

12. Discourse Dissonance in University Policy Concerning Intellectual Property

13. When Angels Dance with Devils: What is sacred and profone in the professoriate?

14. Listening to Students' Voices: Self study of teacher education practice

15. UK Doctoral Degree Assessment Criteria: Towards transparency through exploring teacher thinking

Part 4. Teacher Development

16. The Challenge to the Best: Research and the teacher

17. Tertiary Teacher Development: Connecting policy, personal theory and practice

18. Collaboration in Cross National Networks for Teacher Professional Development

19. Dilemmas of Democratic Education

20. When the Best Maps Cannot Guide Us: Exploring and understanding teacher vulnerability

Part 5. Research and Theory

21. The Development of Teachers' and Students' Identities through Reflective Practices: Conceptual considerations

22. On a Pedagogy of Research Problems

23. Shared Basic Democratic Values by Means of Education? A deweyan perspective on some democratic illusions and necessities

24. Face to Face: Human dimensions in biographical interviews

25. Teachers Becoming Researchers: Reflections on professional development.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 08, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.