In this paper, I propose shifts in perspective and practice initial teacher education from the reflective to diffractive practitioner as a productive way of supporting new teachers prepar...

The potential of tablets to support collaborative inquiry-based science learning and reflective thinking in preschool has previously been investigated by us through the analysis of teacher-led activities. These included the children making timelapse photography and Slowmation movies and we reported an enhanced and focused reasoning about water phase changes in situations where timelapse movies ...

With the continuous development of education, teaching methods are also constantly innovating and improving. Reflective is one them. It a method developed on basis action research, aiming to help students reflect their learning process, so as better master knowledge skills. As language course, English requires process think about how improve proficiency abilities. Therefore, this article will e...

AIM Portfolios are often used as an instrument with which to stimulate students to reflect on their experiences. Research has shown that working with portfolios does not automatically stimulate reflection. In this study we addressed the question: What are the conditions for successful reflective use of portfolios in undergraduate medical education? METHODOLOGY/RESEARCH DESIGN: We designed a por...

This article reports the findings of the authors conversations with beginning teachers posted to rural-remote schools in Western Australia. The stories provide some insight into the personal-professional dilemmas, tensions and constraints that new teachers encounter in the transition to teaching and living in rural-remote communities. The article explores the implications of these stories for t...

This paper reports the results from an exploratory study of K-8 pre-service teachers’ inductive reasoning. The analysis of 130 written solutions to seven tasks and 77 reflective journals completed by 20 pre-service teachers lead to descriptions of inductive reasoning processes, i.e. specializing, conjecturing, generalizing, and justifying, in the problem-solving contexts. The uncovered characte...

The article examines the essence and structure of coaching approach, which contains conceptual (related to interpretation «coaching» phenomenon, its types principles) technological (implies introduction techniques in process forming reflective competence future teacher) components. reflexive teacher, is meta-competence an individual, motivational-value (a set motives, attitudes, value attitudes...