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Beginning Teacher Educators: Working in Higher Education and Schools

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Internationally, teacher educators are known to be a heterogeneous occupational group, working in many ways to support pre- and in-service teachers from within differing types of higher education institutions (universities, polytechnics or colleges) and/or schools. These educators may come from differing educational backgrounds, bringing with them into teacher education varied experiences and credentials. For example, at the extreme: individual educators’ experience of school teaching may be extensive or non-existence; similarly, levels of research knowledge and experience may vary from expert status (including possession of a doctorate in education) to very little systematic experience of research engagement.

Drawing on an international literature base, this chapter looks at the communalities and differentiations across this heterogeneous group as its members enter teacher education in various international settings. Experiences of transition into teacher education are a major focus here. The chapter also focuses on the need to acquire new senses of identity as teacher educators, new knowledge bases and the pedagogical skills required to teach intending and serving teachers.

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Notes

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    This term is used here to describe the academic organisational units variously known as Schools, departments or faculties of education.

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    Parallels may be drawn between the analysis of these teacher educators as semi-academics and Etzioni’s (1969) analysis of teachers and other highly feminised occupational groups as semi-professionals.

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Murray, J. (2016). Beginning Teacher Educators: Working in Higher Education and Schools. In: Loughran, J., Hamilton, M. (eds) International Handbook of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0369-1_2

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