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Tensions in Teaching about Teaching

Understanding Practice as a Teacher Educator

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Amanda Berry

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  • Reconceptualises the practice of teacher education as identifying and managing a series of tensions
  • Offers an approach to both theorising and developing teacher education practice
  • Explores deeper, more complex understandings of self-study
  • Explores the pedagogical relationship between prospective teachers and the teacher educator

Part of the book series: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (STEP, volume 5)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Contexts Of The Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Beginning To Research My Practice

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 1-6

    3. Teacher Educators Studying Their Work

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 7-20

    4. Developing A Research Approach

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 21-30

    5. Tensions as a Framework for Learning About Practice in Teacher Education

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 31-43

  3. Exploring The Tensions Of Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Telling and Growth

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 45-61

    3. Confidence and Uncertainty

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 63-80

    4. Action and Intent

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 81-95

    5. Safety and Challenge

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 97-110

    6. Planning and Being Responsive

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 111-124

    7. Valuing and Reconstructing Experience

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 125-138

    8. Revisiting and Summarising The Tensions

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 139-151

  4. Learning From Teaching About Teaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 152-152
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    2. Becoming a Teacher Educator

      • Amanda Berry
      Pages 153-167

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-184
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About this book

This series in Teacher Education: Self-study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) has been created in order to offer clear and strong examples of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It explicitly values the work of teachers and teacher educators and through the research of their practice, offers insights into new ways of encouraging educational change. The series is designed to complement the Inter- tional Handbook of Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education practices (Loughran, Hamilton, LaBoskey, & Russell, 2004) and as such, helps to further define this important field of teaching and research. Self-study of teaching and teacher education practices has become an important ‘way in’to better understanding the complex world of teaching and learning about teaching. The questions, issues and concerns, of teacher educators in and of their own practice are dramatically different to those raised by observers of the field. Hence, self-study can be seen as an invitation to teacher educators to more meani- fully link research and practice in ways that matter for their pedagogy and, as a consequence, their students’learning about pedagogy.

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“In this book, Amanda Berry offers a comprehensive self-study about her practices as a Biology teacher educator. It offers a clear grasp of the issues and ideas underpinning a pedagogy of teacher education in practice. Framed in terms of teaching tensions based on Berry's analysis of her data, this book is is not only interesting and insightful but also offers a model for the direction of self-study. This is an outstanding piece of work that will be of considerable interest and value to other teacher education scholars.” - Ken Zeichner, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Authors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Australia

    Amanda Berry

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