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The purpose of this self-study was to examine an internal conflict the lead author was feeling about her credibility to teach pre-service elementary teachers when she was similar in age to them and had no K-12 teaching experience.
Having taught only as an undergraduate science teaching assistant, she was now assigned in her doctoral program to be an early field experience instructor for elementary education majors.
Using Relational Cultural Theory and the framework of deliberate relationship, the role of rapport was analyzed in relation to authority and credibility.
Findings show the lead author’s rapport with her pre-service teachers was valuable in supporting her authority and credibility as an instructor, but only when boundaries to rapport were maintained.
Specifically, findings show the difficulty in balancing caring for pre-service teachers with appropriate boundaries, and need for diligent transparency of practice.
Implications for successful teacher-student relationships when feeling tensions between developing rapport and authority are discussed.
Positive, mutually-beneficial relationships with high rapport are possible as long as the instructor maintains appropriate boundaries with pre-service teachers by focusing on the teacher-student relationship rather than attempting to establish friendships.
Published: 2020
Updated: Jul. 01, 2021
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This study made explicit the discourses of 10 teachers working as university-based teacher educators in Singapore to understand their enacted identities.
It framed identity as discursive, constructed through language and talk. Interview data were analyzed using descriptive discourse analysis tools, with critical discourse analysis influencing the process.
The discourses are as follows:
(a) The value of seconded teachers is located firmly within schools, with practice and practitioner elevated above theory and academics;
(b) teaching is the core role of seconded teachers, and discourses about learning, development, and research are weak; and
(c) an individualistic framing situates the locus of change on teacher-practitioners.
Hybrid spaces that bring theory and practice together are discursive spaces.
Both the strengths and limitations of existing discursive identities need to be acknowledged, and multifaceted and complex practitioner identities explored.
This article contributes to the integration of practitioners into the wider community of teacher educators in the university.
Published: 2021
Updated: Jul. 01, 2021
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Calls for the renewal of teacher preparation through clinical practice have left many novice teacher educators to learn on the job.
This article reports on the research of two such novices, studying their own practice.
Addressing the need to better understand the approaches teacher educators take to clinically grounding their work, the authors used a hermeneutic approach to naturalistic inquiry to study their use of an inquiry community framework in a teacher preparation clinical setting.
The authors found that within an arc of practitioner inquiry, explicitly teaching guided reflection and professional dialoguing skills within an inquiry community were key teacher educator practices.
They found that an inquiry community approach holds promise as a structure and space for teacher educators to advance teacher preparation toward clinical practice.
Published: 2021
Updated: May. 21, 2021
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The shutdown of universities and schools in England, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, came just as many pre-service students began their final practicum.
This research focuses on the challenges this posed for teacher educators.
Using qualitative research methods and concepts from spatial geography, the article explores how pedagogies adapted as the removal of the practicum relocated learning communities to new online spaces.
Established practices changed quickly, with educators showing ‘pedagogic agility’.
Despite the relocation to newly-formed online spaces, many principles and ‘intentionalities’ of practice remained unchanged, as did the teacher educators’ orientating values.
Overall, there was a sense of both sameness and difference in some of the innovative pedagogies developed on the (g)local level.
This research has international relevance in considering the spaces in which authentic teacher education can occur and the alternative pedagogies and technologies to support professional learning in the case of a ‘missing’ practicum.
Published: 2020
Updated: Apr. 12, 2021
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This paper paints a complex portrait of the “wicked problem” of teaching technology integration in a field-based content literacy course in order to analyze how a teacher educator demonstrated a presence (and absence) of Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs).
The study indicates that developing technology competencies in teacher educators shares challenges with broader issues of practice based teacher education.
It suggests the TETCs would benefit from a clear grounding in theory and should consider the influence of teacher educator Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) on teacher educators’ abilities to build and demonstrate competency.
Overall, framing teacher educator professional growth and development through the lens of the TETCs facilitated reflection and spotlighted areas of strength, as well as areas for improvement, within practice.
Published: 2020
Updated: Feb. 17, 2021
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The purpose of this study is to examine student teachers’ and teacher educators’ understandings of and approaches to teacher-researcher development in initial teacher education in Kosovo within the research-based education movement.
The study used a qualitative research design.
The data were collected through open questionnaires (n = 270 student teachers), interviews (n = 15 teacher educators), and programme content (n = 5) at two initial teacher education institutions in Kosovo.
Using Healey and Jenkins’s research curriculum categories as a guiding framework, the study identified four clusters of contradictory understandings and approaches relating to teacher educator practice and programme values and goals, fragmenting the context of teacher-researcher development in Kosovo.
In order to build consensus in teacher-researcher development, coordinated efforts are recommended to address the current isolated and differing understandings and practices within the broader context of initial teacher education.
Published: 2020
Updated: Dec. 13, 2020
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Across the globe, preparing the next generation of teachers is one of the most important tasks for higher education.
In this article, the authors discuss the Teacher Preparation Initiative (TPI), a successful professional development framework designed to support teacher candidates as they enter their classrooms and also the faculty members who are working with them.
This paper highlights four key components to this professional development programme:
1) practical,
2) aligned,
(3) relationship-centred, and
4) current.
The general framework of the partnership will be helpful for institutions whether or not they can be a part of the TPI, but are looking to build similar professional development opportunities for their education faculty members.
Published: 2019
Updated: Nov. 30, 2020
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Published: 2020
Updated: Nov. 17, 2020
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This qualitative multi-case study explores a group of university-based language teacher educators’ boundary crossing experiences in Hong Kong.
Informed by a conceptual framework on boundary crossing and drawing on data from in-depth interviews and field observations, the findings reveal the opportunities and challenges embedded in teacher educators’ boundary crossing between university and schools, between the teacher education and academic community, and between local and external contexts.
The study contributes new knowledge to our understanding of teacher educators’ boundary crossing through two different forms, i.e., horizontal and hierarchical, as they navigate sociocultural differences between various communities.
The paper concludes with practical implications on how to promote teacher educators’ continuing development in university settings.
Published: 2020
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020
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This paper reports phenomenographic research focused on studying the conceptions of modeling held by teacher educators.
Data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted face-to-face with twenty-four teacher educators working in three Chilean primary school teacher education programs.
The analysis identified four categories of description, ranging from modeling as teaching pedagogical activities to modeling as developing teaching linked to the school classroom.
Besides, four dimensions of variation were found, providing a more accurate picture of this teaching practice.
The author recommends continuing the study on this topic for improving the teaching practices enacted by teacher educators.
Published: 2020
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020