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A Corpus-Based Investigation of Critical Reflective Practice and Context in Early Career Teacher Settings
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Murphy, Bróna – Classroom Discourse, 2015
Reflective practice is at the core of teacher education programmes and is highly regarded as an essential component in the education of new and experienced teachers. Given the recent interest in language use and the role of discourse in articulating knowledge of one's practice, this paper focuses on how two groups of early career teachers from…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness
Beyond Initial Transition: An International Examination of the Complex Work of Experienced Literacy/English Teacher Educators
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Kosnik, Clare; Dharamshi, Pooja; Miyata, Cathy; Cleovoulou, Yiola – English in Education, 2014
This article reports on a study of 21 mid-career and senior literacy/English teacher educators in four countries: Canada, the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), and Australia. Three main themes are discussed: identity (re) construction; knowledge development (e.g. of pedagogy; current literacy practices); and reconceptualisation of their…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Literacy, English Teachers, Foreign Countries
Education in the Age of the Information Superhighway: An Investigation into Initial Teacher Training in Canada
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Illingworth, Martin – Canadian Journal of Education, 2012
This article discusses particular aspects of current Canadian teacher training that seem healthy practice to an experienced school-teacher from the United Kingdom. With the UK government increasingly interested, some would say determined, in moving the funding of initial teacher training away from universities and to schools, my visit to Canada,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
Reconciling the Tensions of New Teachers' Socialisation into School Culture: A Review of the Research
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Cherubini, Lorenzo – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
The study reviews the research from 1969 to 2005 describing pre-service candidates' transition from student teacher to professional educator during their socialisation into school culture. Despite the educational reforms in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia over the last three decades, this review argues that new teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Education Work Relationship, Beginning Teachers
Initiatives to Address Teacher Shortage. ACER Policy Briefs. Issue 5
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Lonsdale, Michele; Ingvarson, Lawrence – ACER Press (Australian Council for Educational Research), 2003
This paper is in response to an invitation from the Victorian Department of Education and Training to undertake a targeted review of effective teaching recruitment strategies. The paper provides a "snapshot" of what is happening in other States and Territories and in selected countries overseas. The main focus of the review is on the…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Teacher Recruitment
Teaching Improvement Practices: Successful Strategies for Higher Education.
Wright, W. Alan; And Others – 1995
This volume contains 15 papers on strategies for improving teaching in higher education with a focus on perceptions of current practices particularly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Canada. The papers are: "Teaching Improvement Practices: International Perspectives" (W. Alan Wright and M. Carol O'Neil);…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students