Teaching about Teaching: Purpose, Passion and Pedagogy in Teacher Education

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Routledge, Nov 1, 2002 - Education - 258 pages
Considers teacher education as an important aspects of the teaching profession and demonstrates why it is so important for higher education institutions to value their teacher educators' professional knowledge. The book demonstrates how teaching about teaching knowledge pedagogy is vital to the development of quality in teacher education and how this knowledge needs to be articulated and communicated throughout the teaching profession, both in schools and universities.

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Contents

An Introduction to Purpose Passion and Pedagogy
3
Practicing Theory and Theorizing Practice in Teacher
13
How I Teach IS the Message
32
Teacher Education as a Process of Developing Teacher
48
Principles and Practice
57
Teaching Teachers for the Challenge of Change
73
Learning to Teach Prospective Teachers to Teach
95
Who
117
Learning about Learning in the Context of a Science
133
Pedagogy
150
Advisor as Coach
164
Obligations to Unseen Children
183
Talk about
210
Becoming Passionate about Teacher Education
229
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Tom Russell, John Loughran

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