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Developing Subject Knowledge

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This chapter is written to share with the readers, ideas, suggestions and theoretical considerations when preparing educators to work in primary schools with learners. Teacher educators often reach educational posts, with responsibility to teach student teachers, via a variety of routes. Previous success in roles, such as middle leaders, head teachers, administrators, inspectors, advisors, etc, means that they have accrued much invaluable knowledge and understanding about subject matter to be taught, from many differing and varied professional experiences.

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  1. Oxford Brookes University, England

    Debra Mcgregor (Professor of Learning and Developing Pedagogy)

  2. Liverpool Hope University, England

    Mrs Alison Brade (Lecturer in Teacher Education)

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  1. Liverpool Hope University, UK

    S. Rodrigues

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Mcgregor, D., Brade, A. (2014). Developing Subject Knowledge. In: Rodrigues, S. (eds) Handbook for Teacher Educators. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-695-0_4

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