Browsing by Subject "Teacher education"
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Becoming an educator in and through the arts: forming and informing emerging teachers' professional identity (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)This article examines student experience and identity formation within an arts education module (involving music, drama and visual arts) on an initial teacher education programme in Ireland. Student reflections (n ¼ 106) ... -
Changes in roles and relationships in a school-university partnership
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Diversity in early years education North and South: Implications for teacher education
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Facilitating inquiry based learning in mathematics teacher education
(SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2010)A driving question in teacher education centers on how to help prospective teachers become expert teachers. The absence of a shared professional curriculum to prepare teachers to teach mathematics combined with the difficulty ... -
'If you're doubting yourself then, what's the fun in that?' an exploration of why prospective secondary mathematics teachers perceive statistics as difficult
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Most research into prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ attitudes towards statistics indicates generally positive attitudes but a perception that statistics is difficult to learn. These perceptions of statistics as ... -
An investigation into the profile of entrants to concurrent (post-primary) initial teacher education in Ireland, 2009–2020
(Routledge, 2021-03-26)In recent times, Ireland’s post-primary schools have experienced considerable social, cultural, economic and technological change. As a result newly qualified teachers are entering an increasingly diverse and rapidly ... -
North-South educational partnership, a critical analysis: an Ireland, Uganda, Lesotho and Zambia case study
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)The term ‘partnership’ has emerged to dominate development aid discourse. It is a term which suggests movement towards effective development relations based on powerfully appealing yet contested ideas of symmetry and equity. ... -
Primary mathematics teacher education: Teaching at the heart of learning
(SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2012)In this presentation we use the theme of teaching at the heart of learning to illustrate the opportunities for pre-service teacher learning. The presentation reports on the outcomes of classroom based inquiry in primary ... -
Stories from school! A narrative inquiry exploring primary teachers' experiences of school-based teacher education
(2021-04-07)‘Stories from School!’ is a personal, philosophical, and educational endeavour which applies narrative (Clandinin and Connelly,1990,1994,1995,1996, 2000; Clandinin 2006, 2013, 2020, Speedy, 2001, 2008; Kim 2016; Craig 2011, ... -
Teacher educators’ enactment of pedagogies that prioritise learning about meaningful physical education (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2018)This research focused on supporting pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) learning through the development of pedagogical principles of learning about meaningful physical education (LAMPE) in two physical education teacher education ... -
Understanding the knowledge demands of teaching statistics: insights gained from examining practice
(CERME [Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education], 2015)This research examines the knowledge demands placed on 73 pre-service teachers who are observed as they plan, teach and re-teach data lessons in classrooms. Problems of practice are identified and categorized using the ... -
Using corpus approaches in English language teacher education (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2019)The aim of this chapter is to explore the ways in which corpus linguistics (CL) can facilitate teacher development in terms of content, pedagogy, technology, and research. Based on our own and other reported experiences ... -
Using language corpora in initial teacher education: pedagogic issues and practical applications (Re-printed version)
(TESOL, 2003)Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are ‘corpus-based’ and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language ...