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The influence of teaching on learning is critical and is dependent on moving beyond notions of transmission and reception. The nature of teachers’ professional knowledge is fundamental to deeper understandings of teaching and learning and is all the more important when considering quality in teacher education. This chapter focuses on teaching in ways that will illustrate how quality in teacher education might be better recognized, developed and portrayed and goes to the heart of what it means to develop scholarship in teacher education.
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Jeff Northfield was a Professor of Teacher Education who accepted a teaching position in a high school for a year to research and learn more about how to teach students in ways that might help them to become more active learners. He did that through a focus on teaching for metacognition. His experience was documented in the book Opening the Classroom Door (Loughran and Northfield 1996).
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Loughran, J. (2016). Understanding Professional Knowledge of Teaching and Its Importance to Scholarship in Teacher Education. In: Chi-Kin Lee, J., Day, C. (eds) Quality and Change in Teacher Education. Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24139-5_16
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