Teacher Education in Lifelong Learning - Developing Professionalism as a Democratic Endeavour

Foreword

Preface

References

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations and Key Terms

List of Figures

List of Tables

1: Teacher Education in the Lifelong Learning Sector: Professionalism and the Democratic Endeavour

1.1 A Professional Biography

1.2 The Policy Landscape

1.3 Initial Teacher Training in the LLS

1.4 Knowledge

1.5 Terms and Terminology: Definitions and Early Conceptual Musings

1.5.1 My Students

1.5.2 Lifelong Learning

1.5.3 Neo-Liberalism

1.5.4 Post-Fordism

1.5.5 Managerialism

References

2: Initial Teacher Education in the Lifelong Learning Sector: Developing Professional Knowledge and Practice

2.1 Context: Initial Teacher Education in the Lifelong Learning Sector

2.2 Participation

2.2.1 Lifelong Learning and Widening Participation Discourse

2.2.2 Work-Based Learning

2.2.3 Coaching and Mentoring in Work-Based Learning

2.3 Professional Knowledge and Practice: Conceptual Frameworks

2.3.1 Teacher Confidence

2.3.2 Teacher Excellence

2.3.3 Routinised Practices

2.4 Summary

References

3: Learning and Becoming: Encounters with Developing Teachers

3.1 Experiential Learning

3.2 Habitus

3.3 Summary

References

4: Learning and Becoming: Experiences of the Teacher Educator as a Practitioner Researcher

4.1 Insiderness

4.1.1 Warrant

References

5: The Journey into Praxis: Confidence, Excellence and Routinised Practice

5.1 The Participants: Background and Professional Biography

5.1.1 Jenny

5.1.2 Carol

5.1.3 Anne

5.1.4 Roslyn

5.1.5 Wyn

5.1.6 Lauren

5.1.7 Ikram

5.1.8 Brenda, Roslyn, Andrew, Jill

5.1.9 Bithi, Lara, Jill, Sadie, Roslyn, Don, Farida

5.2 Tying Up the Themes

5.2.1 Teacher Confidence

Experience as Relational

Experience as Embodied

Experience as Transformational

5.2.2 Teacher Excellence

Subject Knowledge/Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Structure Versus Creativity

Professionalism/Professional Standards

5.2.3 Routinised Practices

Evidence-Based Practice/Teaching

Techne

5.3 Summary and Initial Conclusions

References

6: Professional Knowledge and Practice: Some Conclusions

6.1 John Dewey and Me

6.2 Final Thoughts

References

References

Index