Practical theorising in teacher education : holding theory and practice together

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    • Burn, Katharine
    • Mutton, Trevor
    • Thompson, Ian (Ian C.)

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Practical theorising in teacher education : holding theory and practice together

edited by Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, and Ian Thompson

Routledge, 2023 [i.e. 2022]

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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-Offers an important and timely contribution to the research on practical theorising in teacher education, which acknowledges the importance of experience and reflective practice but embraces the essential need for teachers to engage with evidence from research. -Explores both the challenges and opportunities presented by practical theorising, and the tensions introduced by performance culture in education, giving educators a range of tools to help navigate these demands and challenges. -Includes perspectives from university-based and school-based teacher educators, showing how the process of practical theorising has been supported across a range of different programs and formats.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Section 1. The nature of practical theorising, 1. The role of practical theorising in teacher education: formulation, critique and response to the challenges, 2. An international perspective on practical theorising, Section 2. Negotiating the challenges of practical theorising for beginning teachers, 3. Practical theorising in learning to teach history: a shifting process of negotiation, 4. Practical theorising in a changing context: enabling beginning science teachers to negotiate different expectations in the reality of schools, 5. Developing teacher agency in drawing on research and reflection when teaching students to produce written responses to text, 6. Prospective teachers' ways of addressing challenges in teaching reasoning-and-proving, 7. Theorising practices of inclusive pedagogy: a challenge for Initial teacher education, Section 3. Tools to support practical theorising, 8. Tools for promoting practical theorising in mathematics, 9. Supporting student teachers' practical theorising via written assignments, 10. The role of assessment in supporting beginning teachers 'practical theorising' and pedagogical learning in geography education, 11. Developing the practice of teacher educators: the role of practical theorising, Section 4. Practical theorising beyond initial teacher education, 12. Sustaining practical theorising as the basis for professional learning and school development, 13. Practical theorising in the professional development of primary teachers: outcomes of the 'Thinking, Doing, Talking Science' project, 14. Curriculum: practical theorising in the absence of theory

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