Being a Teacher Educator

Research-Informed Methods for Improving Practice

Anja Swennen, Elizabeth White, Anja Swennen, Elizabeth White

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367518592
• eBook ISBN: 9781000197594
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Biographies

This collection offers a timely and wide-ranging contribution to the research-informed improvement of the work of teacher educators. Drawing on original research studies conducted across a range of European countries, Canada, and Israel, contributors offer insight into not only questions of curriculum and programme development, research, and professional development, but also their day-to-day experience as teacher educators, student teachers, and mentors in schools.

Themes explored include teaching and working with students, teacher educators as researchers, the partnership work of teacher educators, the professional development needs of teacher educators, professional development approaches for improving teacher education, and teacher educator empowerment.

Arising from the international community of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), and drawing together theory and practice, this book offers a unique survey of the contributions of teacher educators and charts a path for future directions of the field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of editors
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Introduction to Being a Teacher Educator: Research-Informed Methods for Improving Practice
• 2 Being a reflective teacher educator: professionalism or pipe dream?
• 3 Understanding the reflective process through self-study: a teacher educator’s journey towards continuous professional development
• 4 Developing as teacher educators: lessons learned from student voices during practice and research
• 5 Teacher educator collaboration and a pedagogy of teacher education: practice architectures, professional learning, praxis, and production
• 6 “Are we doing the right thing?”: challenges teacher educators face when taking the risk of opening up possibilities for students
• 7 Old learning, new learning: teacher educators as enquiring professionals
• 8 A professional social network as a platform for teacher educators’ professional development
• 9 International semi-collaborative research initiative: a critical reflection of the research process
• 10 Learning from stories about the practice of teacher educators in partnerships between schools and higher education institutions
• 11 Teacher educator as researcher: striving towards a greater visibility for teacher education
• 12 Brave Research as a means to transform teacher education
• 13 Epilogue: lessons from this book and next steps in developing the profession of teacher educators
• Index