Teacher learning and language : subtitle a pragmatic self-study ...

• Main Author: Gudjonsson, Hafthor
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2009
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0054798; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0054798

The study presented here addresses teacher learning. It is a 'self-study' in the sense that it is directed to my own efforts as a teacher educator in Iceland to establish a new kind of learning environment for my student teachers, guided by the view that, in doing so, I might better understand more generally what learning to teach entails and how such learning might be facilitated. I ask, "How teachers learn to think and act in particular ways?" Approaching this question, I turn inward, asking myself what and how I was learning when trying to build the new learning environment. However, the study also includes an inquiry into my own practice as a secondary school chemistry teacher, in particular my efforts to readapt to the culture of my school after two years of graduate studies in another country but also my efforts to bring the complexities of my own chemistry teaching to my student teachers on campus. Records collected for this study include my own research journal, copies of my student teachers' written ...