Beschreibung:
Teacher Educators as Members of an Evolving Profession focuses on the overall role of teacher educators who might be seen as leaders involved in the transformation of schools and schooling in a manner appropriate for the requirements of the 21st century. Teacher education is perceived in this book as a profession with unique characteristics. In the frame of this conception this book provides and discusses relevant professional issues: the professional identity of teacher educators, their role perception, and the characteristics of their vocational language.
Teacher Educators as Members of an Evolving Profession focuses on the overall role of teacher educators who might be seen as leaders involved in the transformation of schools and schooling in a manner appropriate for the requirements of the 21st century. Teacher education is perceived in this book as a profession with unique characteristics. In the frame of this conception this book provides and discusses relevant professional issues: the professional identity of teacher educators, their role perception, and the characteristics of their vocational language. The pedagogy of teacher education is addressed and special attention is given to their professional development. The place of practice in this development process is considered. The contribution of research and academic writing as part of the professional development of teacher educators is emphasized. The book has two parts. The first part, Teacher educators: roles, identities, and discourses, deals with several aspects of being a teacher educator, among them their knowledge base, their professional language and their evolving roles. The second part of the book, The pedagogy of the professional development of teachereducators, provides insights into different modes of enacting processes of professional development of teacher educators.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: The Characteristics of Teacher Educators
1. Being a Teacher Educator
John Loughran
2. The Knowledge Base of Teacher Educators: Nature, Dilemmas and Challenges
Klaas van Veen
3. Teacher Educators' Discourses and Language
Sarah Shimoni
4. What Happened to the Traditional Role of Teacher Educators?
Salman Ilaiyan and Alexandra Danial-Saad
5. Teacher Educators and Professional and Social Changes in England Since the 19th
Century
David Crook and Gary McCulloch
6. Feminine Culture and Teacher Education
Michal Zellermayer and Esther Herzog
7. Issues in the Education of Teachers of Young Children
Lilian G. Katz
PART II: The Professional Development of Teacher Educators
8. The Professional Development of Teacher Educators in the Context of the School for Professional Development at MOFETRivka Reichenberg, Sara Kleeman and Rachel Sagee
9. Three Decades of Teacher Education in Israel and Their Impact on Professional
Development of Teacher Educators
Yuval Dror
10. Teacher Educators as Agents of Change: A Hong Kong Perspective
Teresa Tsui-san NG, John Chi-Kin LEE and Chun Kwok LAU
11. The Role of Experience in the Education of Teacher Educators
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
12. Pair- Dialogue Teaching and Learning Environments: An Innovating Pedagogy
Dina Tirosh & Pessia Tsamir
13. Preparing Teachers for Teaching Dilemmas Raised by Race and Racism: One Case
Example of Teacher Education for Social Justice
Anna E. Richert and Colette Rabin
14. Reframing Professional Knowledge of Teacher Educators through Writing
Yehudit Shteiman, Ariela Gidron, Batia Eilon
PART III: Expectations for the Future
15. Teacher Educators as Change Agents: Building a Profession of Teaching
Linda Darling-Hammond
16. Teacher-Educators in the Midst of Scottish Educational Reform
Sally Brown
17. Restructuring Teachers' Learning Environments
Cheryl Craig
18. Environmental Education for Sustainability as Values Education- The Challenge for
Teacher Educators
Sara Pe’er, Bela Yavetz and Daphne Goldman
19. Teacher Education as Drama: Possible Roles for Teacher Educators
Miriam Ben-Peretz and Efrat Toov-Ward
20. Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Curriculum
and the Landscape of Education
F. Michael Connelly
About the Contributors
Index