Collective improvisation in a teacher education community

This is the story of a teacher education initiative. The project A Community of Inquiry in Teacher Education (CITE) has aimed to transform learning to teach from an experience based on the acquisition of skills to one centred on the cultivation of certain dispositions. As small-scale reform initiatives go (36 aspiring teachers each year) CITE has had a long and vibrant life, despite some inevitable struggles. It is the longevity of CITE that prompted the authors to turn their inquiries about teaching and learning to the challenges of sustaining their own project. The result is a collection that chronicles some of their own experiments, deliberations, and the lessons learned through their manyexperiences. It is more accurate to say that Collective Improvisation is manystories, not just one. That is because this book represents the perspectives of university-based instructors, school partners, former students, and graduate student researchers. Includes the voices of students (aspiring teachers) whoare rarely asked to contribute to such projects Unique as a ‘self-study’ because it features ongoing deliberations about the evolution of a project and chronicles both successes and failures One of the few books that looks at the self study of an entire teacher education programme rather than one course or instructor INDICE: From the contents Dedication. Acknowledgements. Series Editor Foreword. 1: Stepping Lightly, Thinking Boldly, Learning Constantly: Community andInquiry in Teacher Education. Section 1 visions. 2: Looking Back on the Construction of a Community of Inquiry. 3: Learning in Synchrony. 4: Seeing the Complexity of the Practicum. 5: Enjoying Their Own Margins: Narratives of Innovation and Inquiry in Teacher Education.- Section 2 improvisations. 6: In Open Spaces. 7: Practicing What We Preach: Helping Student Teachers Turn Theory into Practice. 8: Social Studies Education in School. 9: Learning by Design: A Multimedia Mathematics Project in a Teacher Education Program. 10: Teacher Educators Using Technology: Functional, Participative and Generative Competencies. 11: Virtually Aesthetic: The CITE Cohort’s Experience of Online Learning. 12: Learning to Teach Technology: The Journey of Two Beginning Teachers. 13: Mid-Course Feedback on Faculty Teaching: A Pilot Project.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9105-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 254
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés