ERIC Number: EJ1369580
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-7476
EISSN: EISSN-1360-0540
Seeking Serendipity: Teacher Educators as Adaptive Experts during COVID
Rosehart, Paula; Hill, Cher; Sivia, Awneet; Sadhra, Sarine; St. Helene, Janice
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v48 n4 p475-489 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and dismantled conventional models of teaching and learning within teacher education programmes across British Columbia, Canada. Along with the challenges encountered by teacher education programmes, these circumstances have also catalysed long-overdue changes to traditional and colonial educational structures, policies, pedagogies, and practices. Through the analysis of conversations with eight diverse teacher educators and leaders from five universities, this study investigated change and continuity within the landscapes of teacher education during the first 2 years of the pandemic, including substantive systemic changes made to institutional policies, pedagogical approaches, and professional learning models as an intentional response to the challenges brought forward by COVID-19. Informed by the scholarship on serendipity and zemblanity, we explored surprising discoveries, as well as unfortunate outcomes that resulted by design during the pandemic response. Reframing the current crisis as an opportunity to re-vision teacher education, we examine the fundamental importance of becoming adaptive experts; educators who have the capacity to respond effectively to unpredictable, complex, and ever-evolving educational environments.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Policy, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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