Subject knowledge and teacher education : the development of beginning teachers' thinking

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    • Ellis, Viv

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Subject knowledge and teacher education : the development of beginning teachers' thinking

Viv Ellis

(Continuum studies in education)

Continuum, c2009

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-188) and index

"First published in 2007" -- T.p. verso

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Viv Ellis traces the development of three beginning teachers' thinking about their subject knowledge in the context of the teaching standards and the practice of 'auditing' student teachers' subject knowledge.Teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. In this book, Viv Ellis traces the development of three beginning teachers' thinking about their subject knowledge in the context of the teaching standards and the practice of 'auditing' student teachers' subject knowledge. Ellis puts forward a theory of subject knowledge development that moves on from the objectivist and individualistic epistemologies associated with standards and the practices of auditing to more a contextualist and sociocultural understanding of cognition and learning. An important implication of this study is that if teacher education wishes to have greater impact on the development of beginning teachers, teacher educators need to pay greater attention to the schools and subject departments in which these beginning teachers learn.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword by Professor Peter Smagorinsky
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Working on and being worked on: developing knowledge in practice
  • 3. Know, understand and be able to do: professionalizing knowledge
  • 4. Culture, activity, agent: designing the research
  • 5. Ann: thinking about the subject knowledge of English
  • 6. Grace: thinking about the subject knowledge of English
  • 7. Liz: thinking about the subject knowledge of English
  • 8. Personal trajectories of participation: interpreting beginning teachers' development
  • 9. From making little ticks to building professional communities: some implications for teacher education References.

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