Purpose This paper presents the results of my learning using expertise in teacher-research mentoring to address needs pre-service teachers and requirements action research course English language teaching. It reflects on different procedures model, enriched by dialogic strategies informed Freire's pedagogy. Design/methodology/approach Through this first-person research, author aims improve her ...

We report insights from a design research study in higher education that aims at overcoming pre-service teachers’ experiences of fragmentation their educational programmes. The approach started the assumption could be reduced by initiating and conducting boundary crossing between practices subject matter didactics courses university. Following this assumption, principle design(ing) for interlin...

a quasi experimental study was made to determine the effect of in-service education on knowledge, attitude and behavior for controlling hospital infections among nurses aids working in teaching hospitals supervised by the ministry of medical sciences and health care services (tehran,1994).   the sample consisted of 75 randomly selected nurses aids who answered the pre and post in service educat...

This paper discusses technology integration in teaching and teacher education. Emphasis is placed on policy and curriculum reform as they relate to the use of information technologies for teacher education. Particular reference is made to the situation in Cyprus public schools. It is argued that for successful technology integration, there needs to be a shift in pedagogical approaches and refor...

In a recent technological education teacher development study, two elements of teacher socialization–the process of formally preparing to become a teacher (Ginsburg, 1988, p.1)–were singled out for review. First, the study set out to examine the influences on teacher socialization prior to formal teacher education. Second, the impact of pre-service teacher education itself, was explored. The so...

The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...