International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies

by Lily Orland-Barak (Editor), Cheryl J. Craig (Editor)

Overview

All countries in the world understand that education is vital to human and economic prosperity and that teacher education unavoidably is implicated. But the snag is this: political forces shaping public opinion in individual nations (particularly the U.S.) are deeply divided concerning how teacher education should proceed. This book acknowledges this Achilles heel tension, but does not become weighed down by it. Instead, it focuses on 'the practical' (Schwab, 1969), matters that have been locally deliberated and enacted. Pedagogies are named, origins (cultural/practical/theoretical/policy roots) are traced and a live example of the pedagogy unfurling in the local setting is presented from an insider-view.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784416706
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	08/24/2015
Series:	Advances in Research on Teaching , #22
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.61(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Foreword Lily Orland-Barak Cheryl J. Craig 1

Theme I Pedagogies of Working with Multimodalities

Cultivating Student Teachers' Moral Competencies in Teaching during Teacher Education Auli Toom Jukka Husu Kirsi Tirri 13

The Theory - Practice Divide: The Case of Denmark Per F. Laursen 33

Connecting Theory and Practice in Initial Teacher Training In Italy: The University Of Bari Experience of the Multimodal Laboratory Chiara Gemma Laura Sara Agrati 51

Promoting Preservice Teacher's Meta-Representational (Visual) Competencies: The Need for a New Pedagogy Billie Eilam 65

Multigrade Teaching in Primary Education as a Promising Pedagogy for Teacher Education in Austria and Finland Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer Tina Hascher 89

Embodiment: A Multimodal International Teacher Education Pedagogy? Rachel Forgasz 115

Theme II Pedagogies of Partnerships and Communities

Faith Communities and Community Engagement Based Teacher Education: A Pedagogy of Promise Jude Butcher Anthony Steel 141

A Programmatic Focus on Engaging Families, Communities and Children: Institutionalizing Assets-Based Pedagogies Renée T. Clift Chris Da Silva Iddings Donna Jurich Iliana Reyes Kathy Short 161

Theme III Pedagogies of Teacher Assessment

Pedagogy of Formative Assessment: A Mexican Exemplar Alejandra García-Franco Jose Antonio Chamizo 185

Preservice Teachers' Reflective Portfolio: Evaluating Teaching and Learning in Teacher Education in China Zhuo Feng Xiao Han 203

Electronic Portfolios as Pedagogy: Using bPortfolios For Authentic Assessment of Teacher Knowledge and Skills in the U.S. David Wicks Andrew Lumpe 219

Theme IV Vehicles of Teacher Education Research and Dissemination

Composing a Life as a Teacher Educator Sean Lessard Lee Schaefer Janice Huher M. Shaun Murphy D. Jean Clandinin 235

Pedagogies for Teacher Education Policy Development in Canada: Democratic Dialogue Déirdre Smith 253

The Policy Analysis and Debate on "Internship": An Exemplar of Research Conducted At The Center For Teacher Education Research, Beijing Normal University Xudong Zhu Li Yuan Siying Chen 281

Israel's Mofet Institute: "Community of Communities" for the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge of Teacher Education Michal Golan Rivka Reichenberg 299

The Use of Evidence to Improve Education and Serve the Public Good: New Zealand's Best Evidence Synthesis Programme Adrienne Alton-Lee 317

InFo-Ted: Bringing Policy, Research, and Practice Together Around Teacher Educator Development Eline Vanassche Frances Rust Paul F. Conway Kari Smith Hanne Tack Ruben Vanderlinde 341

Concluding Chapter (Part C) Cheryl J. Craig Lily Orland-Barak 365

Series Concluding Chapter (Parts A, B and C) Cheryl J. Craig Lily Orland-Barak 379

About the Authors 389