"The Teacher Education Conversation": A Network of Cooperating Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Nielsen, Wendy S.; Triggs, Valerie; Clarke, Anthony; Collins, John
Titel	"The Teacher Education Conversation": A Network of Cooperating Teachers
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Education, 33 (2010) 4, S.837-868 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0380-2361
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cooperating Teachers; Teacher Educators; Communities of Practice; Preservice Teacher Education; Faculty Development; Systems Approach; Student Teaching; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Co-operation; Cooperation; Teacher; Teachers; Kooperation; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Community; Lehramtsstudiengang; Systemischer Ansatz; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Kanada
Abstract	This study investigated a professional learning community of cooperating teachers and university-based teacher educators. To examine our roles and perspectives as colleagues in teacher education, we drew on frameworks in teacher learning and complexity science. Monthly group meetings of this inquiry community were held over two school years in a suburban school district in British Columbia. Participants' current and prior experiences in the role of cooperating teacher provided rich topics for conversation. Our analysis illustrates how aspects of complexity thinking both enable and promote teacher learning, in this instance, the professional development of cooperating teachers. The study highlights (a) key tensions that allow for deeper exploration of issues, (b) the need for flexibility that is open to contingency, (c) the importance of reducing hierarchical structures to enable networks to develop, and (d) improvisation as a key ingredient for teacher learning. (Contains 2 tables, 2 figures, and 2 footnotes.) ["The Teacher Education Conversation: A Network of Cooperating Teachers" was written with Dianne Coulter, Tina Grigoriadis, Stephanie Hardman, Lee Hunter, Jane Kinegal, Bianca Li, Jeff Mah, Karen Mastin, David Partridge, Kathleen Salbuvik, Mitch Ward, Frederick Weil, Janet White, Kang Changyun, and Gaalen Erickson.] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10