Promoting Student Teachers' Reflective Thinking Through a Philosophical Community of Enquiry Approach

Revealing Student Teachers Thinking through Dilemma Analysis

We explore the potential of dilemma analysis as an assessment tool to reveal student teachers thinking and concerns about their practice. For this purpose we analyze the dilemma analyses completed by 22 student teachers enrolled in our science teacher preparation program over a period of four semesters. Student teachers dilemmas fall into two main groups: dilemmas about student performance and ...

Analyzing agricultural education student teachers' critical thinking skills through blogs in an online community of practice

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the critical thinking demonstrated within student teacher blog posts as student teachers discussed and reflected in an online community of practice during their student teaching experiences, and to determine the critical thinking demonstrated within student teaching blog posts as the blog posts related to the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Suppor...

Novice Teachers’ Attention to Student Thinking

the effects of using reflective action approach on the critical thinking of students and teachers in tabriz teachers education colleges

we studied the effects of using reflective action approach (raa) on critical thinking of students and teachers. the research method was a semi-experimental and factorial design (2×2). the subjects were 93 students from tabriz teachers education colleges of which 46 students and teachers (24 female and 22 male) formed the experimental group to receive raa and 47 students and teachers (25 female ...

Distributional techniques for philosophical enquiry

This paper illustrates the use of distributional techniques, as investigated in computational semantics, for supplying data from large-scale corpora to areas of the humanities which focus on the analysis of concepts. We suggest that the distributional notion of ‘characteristic context’ can be seen as evidence for some representative tendencies of general discourse. We present a case study where...