Training a reflective teacher, who in turn will help his students to achieve learning, is task beginning on the first moment student arrives class, but actually peaking last years of their Education, when these are doing internship. The reason for this that dialectics between “thinking and doing” “theory practice”, which situations favouring emergence practice, initiated steps exercise future p...

Building capacity in teachers to teach students skillfully and respectfully across the diversity gap is complex work that requires learn see with what we term as angled perspective. If an perspective learnable, then it teachable. Using our narratives religiously ethnically diverse women teacher educators, share through own learning growth, how this type of analysis can contribute coalitional bu...

As photographic technologies continue to develop, so too do the social practices surrounding their use. The focus of this paper is on the social practices surrounding images captured from a new photographic device – SenseCam – which, rather than capturing individual images when triggered by the user, automatically captures a series of images. This paper is concerned with the use of SenseCam dig...

Using the theories of critical reflection and community of practice, the aim of this paper was to explore the use of blogs as a reflective platform in the training processes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student teachers, who were learning to teach English for future employment in Taiwan. They made use of blogs as a platform to critically reflect on their learning processes as well as ...

Many teacher educators have enthusiastically embraced case-based instruction in teacher education programs. However, the research base on whether pre-service and inservice teacher educators’ case-based reflections on educational issues is comprehensive and critical manner is equivocal. This study explores the use of a metacognitive strategy, the Case Decision Making Scaffold (CDMS), in the cont...

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...