Australian Journal of Education articles from August 2004

Australian Journal of Education archives from August 2004

Special issue: challenging the status quo in teacher education introduction by the guest editor.
August 1, 2004... This theme issue is designed to bring together the work of a number of teacher educators in order to create a forum through which some of the important issues in teacher education might be highlighted and interrogated. In many ways, it could...

Seeking quality in teacher education design: a four-dimensional approach.
August 1, 2004... The quality of existing teacher education programs is currently being debated in many countries and at many educational levels. This article examines the nature of teaching and challenges the common mechanistic approach to teacher education...

Problematising practicum relationships: questioning the 'taken for granted'.
August 1, 2004... We position teaching as a complex, creative profession and have an expectation that practicum should support the reflexive, possibility-thinking and risk-taking creative endeavours of the beginning teacher. This paper reports on a series of...

Confidence and uncertainty in teaching about teaching.
August 1, 2004... This paper explores teacher education through a self-study approach to researching practice. The development of the notion of tensions--in this case, the tension between confidence and uncertainty--is used as a way of understanding the complex...

Roundtable reflections: (Re) defining the role of the teacher educator and the preservice teacher as 'co-learners'.
August 1, 2004... This paper is an account of one aspect of a self-study--the 'roundtable reflections'--conducted over two semesters with two cohorts of Bachelor of Education preservice teachers at the University of Ballarat. An innovative approach to learning...

Teaching about science teaching and learning through an experimental inquiry approach.
August 1, 2004... This study investigates the effect of a science teaching approach--the experimental inquiry approach--on preservice student teachers understanding of the teaching and learning of science in primary schools. This understanding might be...

Self-study: the fifth commonplace.
August 1, 2004... This paper argues that there has been academic amnesia in the field of self-study with respect to the intellectual heritage underlying self-study as a way of understanding teaching practice. From Aristotle to Dewey, the concept of practical...

Student teacher as researcher: accepting greater responsibility for learning about teaching.
August 1, 2004... Student teachers' learning about teaching can be substantially enhanced through teacher preparation if a student teacher as researcher stance is adopted. Through this approach, student teachers can develop more meaningful and sustained ways of...