Being a Teacher Educator

Supporting Professional Learning and Development
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10280-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

This book provides a one-stop research-informed professional learning guide for teacher educators to support their work-based development of values, pedagogy and scholarship.

Drawing on international research and professional development initiatives, it provides a scholarly but action-orientated text. This practical guide supports the professional learning and career development of teacher educators, showing how to learn in and through the workplace. Key areas of focus include pedagogy for teacher education and development, partnership and consultancy, advanced scholarship and research.

Meeting the needs of both new and experienced teacher educators, this is an inspiring, internationally relevant, professionally focused resource.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Pete

Leslie, Pippa

Murray, Jean

Murtagh, Lisa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boyd, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wirtschaftspädagogik, Berufspädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

PART I: Purposes, values and identities

2. The purposes of (teacher) education

3. The multiple identities of a teacher educator

4. Social identities and social justice

5. Being a scholarly teacher educator

6. Workplace learning and career decisions

7. Well-being and managing workload

8. Teacher Educator vignettes on purposes, values and identities

PART II: Pedagogy and partnership

9. Pedagogical principles for teacher education

10. Workplace learning in schools

11. Modelling when teaching teachers

12. Decolonising the teacher education curriculum

13. An international tour of teacher education

14. Supporting educational thinking and writing

15. Assessment in initial teacher education

16. Teachers’ research literacy as professional judgment

17. Teacher Educator vignettes on pedagogy and partnership

PART III: Scholarship and research

18. High quality ‘close to practice’ research

19. Writing for publication: why, what, where and when?

20. Writing a research journal paper

21. Writing for impact

22. Doctoral study or an alternative pathway?

23. Research supervision and mentoring

24. Teacher Educator vignettes on scholarship and research

25. Conclusion

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Pete Boyd is Emeritus Professor of Professional Learning at the University of Cumbria, UK, and was previously a schoolteacher for fifteen years. He works on collaborative professional inquiry and practitioner research projects with teacher researchers.

Dr Pippa Leslie is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of the MA in Educational Professional Practice at the University of Cumbria, UK. She has been a teacher, leader, and consultant in the UK, Channel Islands and Scandinavia. Her research focuses on how real-world dynamics of the classroom influence children’s beliefs about their own capability. As a teacher educator she works with schools to challenge disadvantage in their own context.

Dr Jean Murray is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of East London, UK, and is a National Teaching Fellow at FRSA. Jean's research focuses on teacher education policies internationally. Jean’s research also includes emphases on identity and agency, workplace learning and higher education. She is a founder member of InFo-TED.

Dr Lisa Murtagh is Professor of Education and Head of the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester, UK. Her interests include investigating formative assessment practice with experienced practitioners. Her research approach is rooted in the qualitative paradigm, and she works with preservice teachers and mentors to access their ‘voice’.

Joe Boyd is an independent illustrator based in Bristol, UK. He collaborates with agencies and studios, as well as working directly with clients, to craft flowing, nature-inspired visuals for all kinds of projects.