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

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J. John Loughran, John Loughran, Tom Russell
Psychology Press, 1997 - Education - 244 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

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
Chapter 9
135
Pedagogy
150
57
180
Obligations to Unseen Children
183
71
208
Talk about
210
Becoming Passionate about Teacher Education
229
Notes on Contributors
236
241
Copyright

Advisor as Coach
164

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