Making Practice of Curriculum:Curriculum Making in Teaching and Teacher Education

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration

Making Relevance Relevant in Mathematics Teacher Education

One of the features of the reform in school mathematics is that school mathematics should be made relevant to the learners. The incorporation of mathematical modelling in school mathematics is one of the ways that is offered to realise the relevance ideal. Ostensibly the inclusion of mathematical modelling will provide school learners opportunities to develop mathematical power i.e. the ability...

Making Media Visible in Teacher Education

The ability to create and read different kinds of media products is seen as an important skill for citizenship. In Finland media education (in communicational education) has been taken into the official curriculum as a cross-curriculum subject in 1994 at the primary school level, after the first finnish dissortation in media education had been published (Härkönen 1994). At the same time finnish...

Teaching and Teacher Education

To maintain a professional identity, teachers are to some degree dependent on their student’s mental representations of, and interactions with, them. This affords students’ relational power over teachers possibly invoking a unique form of attachment dependence and responding in some teachers. Data reported in this paper were drawn from a larger research project which asked 11 questions about th...

Teaching and Teacher Education

The aim of this study is to explore ethical dilemmas in critical incidents and the emerged responses that these incidents elicit. Most teachers try to suppress these incidences because of the unpleasant feelings they evoke. Fifty teachers participated in the study. A three-stage coding process derived from grounded theory was utilized. A taxonomy of critical incidents by means of the ATLAS.ti 5...