Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educators Practice [Hardcover]

Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educators Practice is the outcome of the authors systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the authors pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using self-study as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in pre-service teacher education; voice, silence and that which remains unsaid; the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching.

This is a how-to-see-teaching-differently book. By challenging the status-quo in teacher education, it reflects the need to see teaching in new ways and to do so by placing inquiry at the centre of learning about the intricacies of teaching about teaching.

Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educators Practice is the outcome of the authors systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the authors pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using self-study as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in pre-service teacher education; voice, silence and that which remains unsaid; the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching.

PART ONE: Researching Teaching in Teacher Education Chapter One: A New Professionalism Chapter Two: Understanding the 'underbelly': Making sense of theory Chapter Three: Self-Study of Practice Chapter Four: Designing my Self-Study Research PART TWO: Learners Learning Chapter Five: Learning about Reflection il“ê