ADOPTING IDEAS FROM CURRENT NORDIC TEACHER EDUCATION STRATEGIES TO INITIAL SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION

Science Teacher Education

Curriculum materials are a crucial tool with which teachers engage in teaching practice. For preservice teachers to learn to use science curriculum materials in productive ways, they must develop a conception of themselves as elementary teachers in which the use of science curriculum materials is a valued dimension of science-teaching practice. We define those dimensions of teachers’ profession...

Theorising Practice in Initial Teacher Education

Cognitive Science Concepts and Technology Teacher Education

In the early 1990s, Johnson (1992a) stated that technology educators had shown little interest in cognitive science-based research which he observed was unfortunate because of the close alignment between many concepts in cognitive science and technology education. That may be less true today, but the disconnect between being aware of these concepts and/or terms and teaching students to be able ...

Complexity Science and Cohorts in Teacher Education

In this paper we examine the nature of our self-study practices in an elementary teacher education cohort called CITE (Community and Inquiry in Teacher Education). We argue that self-study is not only important to our continued work in CITE but also a critical feature of professional practice in general. Two general questions frame our analysis: (1) What is significant about cohorts in teacher ...

Digital Assessment Strategies in Online Teacher Education

The emergence of e-learning as a vehicle for teaching and learning is presently unquestionable. This research aims to address the following issues related to this topic: (i) which modes and strategies of assessment to use in teacher education virtual learning environments; (ii) how to define the authenticity of the assessment strategies; (iii) which indicators to use in order to warrant the val...