Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education write by Cheryl J. Craig. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the origins and activities of the longest-standing collaborative teacher group in education, the Portfolio Group. Each chapter documents, historically and conceptually, the main intellectual moments in the evolution of the idea of knowledge communities. Authors illuminate the expansive work, research, and the leading/learning influence that the Portfolio Group has had in the local education community as well as on the international education landscape. In doing so, they illustrate the journey of a school-based, cross-institutional knowledge community and provide the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel for so many novice and newly formed groups seeking sustainability. The book demonstrates through the shared experiences of five teachers/teacher educators the ways in which varied collaborations aimed at professional development lead to teacher growth in practice, leadership, and career.
Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy
Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy write by Chestin Auzenne-Curl. This book was released on 2021-09-20. Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy explores the development of knowledge communities - safe spaces on the educational landscape - where research and professional development with literacy teachers and writers can unfurl.
Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning
Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning write by Virginia M. Jagla. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning provides a fresh look at educational reform through the lens of teacher preparation. It poses the question “Why service-learning now?” as it discusses the meaningful ways service-learning pedagogy can transform the approaches used to prepare teachers to educate tomorrow’s children. The pedagogy of service-learning has significant implications for teacher education. Its transformative aspects have far reaching potential to address teacher candidate dispositions and provide deeper understanding of diversity. Knowledge of the pedagogy and how to implement it in candidates’ future classrooms could alter education to a more powerful experience of democracy in action and enhance the civic mission of schools. The current and ongoing research found within this volume is meant to continue support of the notion of educational reform. Because the vision we hold becomes the reality we experience, it is imperative to consider the question—Why service-learning now?—as we adjust teacher preparation programs to promote engaging opportunities for today’s youth.
Teachers Learning in Communities
Teachers Learning in Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teachers Learning in Communities write by Michal Zellermayer. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Teachers Learning in Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Teachers Learning in Communities is about teacher educators by those brave enough to make their professional learning public. The authors reveal the complexities of their participation in school/university partnerships and their relationships with teachers. Here practice informs theory, greatly expanding our knowledge and understanding of these important communities. Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Teachers Learning in Communities is full of exciting success stories about rare and exotic teacher education episodes played out on the marg.
Co-composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula
Co-composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Co-composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula write by Yuanli Chen. This book was released on 2022. Co-composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is knowledge? Whose knowledge matters? How can we build connections with people, share knowledge, and promote one another's growth? These and many other wonders were embedded in my tension-filled stories about knowledge, curricula, and communities, both as a university teacher of English in China and as an international graduate student in Canada. As my doctoral study unfolded, I gradually realized that a pervasive practice of received knowledge shaped my tension-filled stories where I, students, and teachers were viewed or viewed ourselves as received knowers. Knowledge seemed to be delivered to teachers and later to students. The practice of received knowledge stripped away students' and teachers' identities as knowledge holders and curriculum makers. I also grew to see that teacher educators and student teachers were co-composing knowledge communities while co-composing curricula, where individuals' identities as knowledge holders and makers were acknowledged. I wondered how their experiences of co-composing knowledge communities and curricula might shape student teachers' future experiences of co-composing curricula with children. In this study, I came alongside Sam, Lara, and Maryam, two student teachers and one teacher educator, to co-inquire into our experiences of co-composing knowledge communities and curricula, building relational, reciprocal, and ethical learning spaces. We co-inquired into: How did we attend to one another's ways of knowing in this process? How did we promote one another's growth and development through curriculum making? How did our intercultural perspectives and experiences direct us to tell and retell our stories of these experiences, and how might doing so shape the professional knowledge landscapes of teacher education? This study was grounded in the conceptualizations of knowledge communities (Craig, 1995, 2001a, 2007, 2013) and curriculum making (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988; Huber et al., 2011) that value teachers' and children's identities as knowledge holders and curriculum makers. I resonated with the understanding underlying these conceptualizations, that is, knowledge is the sum total of the knower's experience (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988; Dewey, 1938; Huber et al., 2011) and individuals hold personal practical knowledge (Clandinin, 1985; Connelly & Clandinin, 1988). I engaged in a relational narrative inquiry with Maryam, Lara, and Sam for one and a half years. I came alongside the three co-researchers in multiple places, such as in their in-person classroom, online classroom, online meetings, on campus, and at Maryam's home. I participated in their course weekly and wrote field notes of my experience. We had one-on-one research conversations. I kept a research journal, our email messages, and copies of documents, photos, and artifacts they shared with me. Thinking narratively with the stories they lived, told, and retold in our relational three-dimensional narrative inquiry spaces attentive to temporality, sociality, and place, I composed their narrative accounts to foreground their knowledge and voices. Three resonant threads became visible across their narrative accounts, which deepened and made more complex the personal, practical, social, and theoretical justifications of this study. I invited Maryam, Lara, and Sam to read their narrative accounts, the resonant threads chapter, and the chapter on returning to the study justifications and imagining forward, to ensure they felt resonance. Making visible the resonant threads alongside the study justifications, I invited readers to rethink and reimagine practices in the landscapes of teacher education, curriculum making, and intercultural communities. The three resonant threads across Sam's, Lara's, and Maryam's narrative accounts are: "Building Ethical, Reciprocal, and Relational Learning Spaces," "Inquiring into Tensions and Differing Ways of Knowing," and "Becoming The Best-Loved Self." Two study justifications for future inquiry that emerged from our inquiry are: "Shaping Pre-Service Teacher Education and Curriculum Making With Children" and "Co-Composing Intercultural Knowledge Communities for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID)." Through this narrative inquiry, I participated in conversations about pre-service teacher education, curriculum making, and intercultural knowledge communities. I joined conversations about legitimizing personal knowledge and nurturing children's and our identities as knowledge holders, creators, contributors, and change makers. Keywords: knowledge communities, curriculum making, student teachers, teacher educators, narrative inquiry.
