In this article, we draw on teacher surveys and interviews to explore elementary teachers’ perceived professional space, especially in relation autonomy, what these perceptions reveal about the achieved agency of individual teachers. Our analyses revealed two distinct profiles for a positive correlation between pedagogical autonomy some aspects space. However, teachers that experienced more sup...

In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

Wendy Robinson University if Exeter 19 Policy, theory and practice in initial teacher education in England has a long history if turbulence. This paper riflects upon this history and examines those key aspects if initial teacher education which have shaped pas~ present and foture developments. Following a brig historical overview if key developments in the field, the issue if where best to trai...

Professor John M. Sayles, pr incipal of Milne High school, wi l l load a round table discussion at the Eighth Annual Junior High school conference, under the auspices of the school of education at New York university, March 18 and 1°. The theme of the conference wil l he "The New Age Challenges Teaching Methods;" the topic of Professor Sayles' round table wil l he " Improving Methods through Te...

This article will focus on the ethical dilemmas and concerns related to eliciting nature of agency in classrooms that emerges learning contexts. Agency is a somewhat elusive phenomena evidence because it involves capturing signs indications thinking involved negotiating meanings, capacity for initiating, constructional decision-making. These processes are often made explicit through dialogic ac...

This article considers some of the possibilities of the ways in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can support teachingfor understanding in primary schools. Drawing on researchanalysed for a Teacher Training Agency (TTA) study and work in progress in the North East of England supporting ICT training for serving teachers in England it suggests that there are clear possibilitie...

The concept of legitimate peripheral participation was developed by considering informal learning contexts. However, its applicability to school classrooms is problematic. This is particularly so when teacher centred and decontextualised procedural practices predominate as they do in usual school mathematics classrooms. Different meanings of participation in community of practice theory are ide...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...