scholarly journals Teori i praksis - praksis i teori. GLU-studenters refleksjoner om fag og didaktikk

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Bente Velle Hellang ◽  
Gro-Renée Rambø

De siste tiårs forskning, samfunnsdebatt og politikkutforming knyttet til skolesektoren har vært preget av diskusjoner om hva det egentlig innebærer å være en kompetent lærer, og hvordan de to læringsarenaene i lærerutdanningene – teoriarenaen og praksisarenaen – best kan utfylle hverandre for å utdanne kompetente lærere. I denne artikkelen presenterer vi resultatene fra en undersøkelse blant grunnskolelærerstudenter på én utdanningsinstitusjons grunnskolelærerutdanning for 1.–7. trinn. I undersøkelsen har vi rettet blikket mot studentenes opplevelser av lærerrollen og av sammenhengen mellom teoriarenaen og praksisarenaen. Dette har vi gjort i tilknytning til ett spesifikt undervisningsfag i lærerutdanningen – norskfaget. Gjennom en spørreskjemaundersøkelse og gruppeintervjuer har vi bedt studentene svare på hvordan de mener at norskfaglig kompetanse bidrar til at de kan fylle lærerrollen på en god måte, og hvordan de opplever sammenhengen mellom undervisning i norskfaget ved lærerutdanningsinstitusjonen og praksiserfaringer fra norskfaget i skolen. Målsettingen med artikkelen er å bidra til diskusjonen om hvordan man best mulig kan legge til rette for en god lærerutdanning, hvor studenter og lærerutdannere (på både praksisarenaen og teoriarenaen) opplever gjensidig toleranse og felles forståelse for kompleksiteten som ligger i denne profesjonsutdanningen, og der de anerkjenner de to læringsarenaenes likeverdighet. Hovedfunnene er at lærerstudentene ikke uten videre klarer å omsette kunnskap mellom de to læringsarenaene, at de i stor grad ser relasjonskompetanse som viktigere enn fagkompetanse, at disse to kompetanseområdene er uavhengige av hverandre og at praksisarenaen er viktigere enn teoriarenaen som grunnlag for å tre inn i lærerrollen.Nøkkelord: lærerutdanning, lærerstudent, lærerkompetanse, lærerrolle, fagkunnskap, læringsarenaer, norskfagetAbstractDuring the last few decades, research, public debate and policymaking related to the school sector, have been characterized by discussions concerning what being a competent teacher involves. Another issue has been how the two learning arenas in teacher education – the theory arena and the practice arena – can best complement each other to educate competent teachers. In this article we present and discuss results from an investigation conducted among teacher students in teacher education 1-7 at one particular educational institution. We have focused on getting across the students´ experiences and understanding of what the teacher role comprises, and how they see the connections between the two learning arenas as campus training and practice training in partner schools in the school subject Norwegian. This is done using a survey and group interviews. Our goal has been to contribute to the ongoing discussion about how to develop a teacher education in which teacher students and teacher educators (in both learning arenas) share an understanding of mutual tolerance and respect. Another has been to develop a common understanding of the complexity of teacher education, and thereby recognizing the equivalence of the students` two learning arenas. Our main findings are that the respondents are not automatically able to transfer knowledge between the two arenas. Consider relational competence more important than subject competence, that these two competence areas are seen as independent of each other, and that the practice arena is considered as more important than the theory arena for developing the role of the teacher.Key words: teacher education, student teacher, teacher competence, teacher role, subject knowledge, learning arenas, the subject Norwegian

Author(s):  
Juli-Anna Aerila ◽  
Johanna Lähteelä ◽  
Teemu Mäkelä ◽  
Merja Kauppinen

This article aims to illustrate a 7-month trial of digital book subscription services in teacher education. Student teachers of the University of Turku in Finland were encouraged to implement the service as part of their free time reading. The experiences of the digital subscription service were investigated using a questionnaire, and data were analyzed through a combination of qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. The aim of the study was to consider the value of digital book subscription services in terms of reading for pleasure and to describe the readership of teacher students as well as their assessment of digital book subscription services as a pedagogical approach for supporting the reading of primary school students. The results indicated that digital book subscription services might enhance the readership of occasional readers and that audiobook services should be implemented more frequently in education since they seem to connect reading to other free time activities. More effort should be placed in supporting the readership of teacher students in teacher education. Currently, the attitude and amount of reading rely primarily on childhood experiences.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priadi Surya

The first part of this study consisted of a qualitative literature review to determine which variables other than strategic enrolment management might affect the competence of B.Ed. graduates. It was found that other factors might include teacher archetype, motivation to become a teacher, career planning and professional identity. This study presented the constructed operational definitions of each of the variables and the proposed structural relationships between them. In the second part, a quantitative approach was used and data were collected through a questionnaire. It is recommended that additional qualitative research is conducted to complement the findings of this study. Keywords: strategic enrolment management, teacher education, student teacher, teacher archetype, teacher competence


Pedagogika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Keller-Schneider

Teaching is a challenging job, due to the changing requirements of changing times. Routine as a teacher is not possible. Student teachers need to be prepared to deal with challenging situations. The perception of requirements as challenges and problem-solving capacities are needed to master the job as a teacher. This article explains why problem-solving capacities are essential for teacher professionalization, what requirements challenge beginning teachers most, and how teacher education can foster student teachers to be prepared to deal with challenges of the first stage of their career. Based on the model of professionalization in which individual resources play a crucial role in the perception of challenge and the coping with it, results from a study on the challenges of beginning teachers were shown. The main finding that beginning teachers are most challenged by teaching that refers to individual students’ needs leads to consequences for teacher education. Student teachers need to build up adaptive knowledge for school and reflection competences. Explanations on a course at Zurich University of Teacher Education show how student teachers are educated in a problem-based setting to build up knowledge and competence that are useful in order to teach considering individual students’ needs. The article closes with a model of reflection on challenging situations that takes into account different factors of individual resources that are relevant for professionalization. Keywords: teacher education, developmental tasks, requirement appraisal, individual resources, reflection, problem-based learning


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davison Zireva

Traditional education has ripple effects in education. The way the educator was taught is almost always the way the educator teaches the learners. Traditional education has a narration sickness (Freire, 2000) and the so-called educators are proselytising ideologues who are after the production of copy cats. Active learning in teacher education is anchored in reflective thinking on all practices. The teacher education student should be encouraged to embark on action research which makes one to be introspective. Thus action research makes the teacher involved in active life-long learning. The teacher who has been groomed in action research abhors routine and ritualistic methods of teaching. The action research oriented teacher makes learners active in learning episodes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Miettinen ◽  
Claudia Gluschankof ◽  
Sidsel Karlsen ◽  
Heidi Westerlund

Societies worldwide are becoming more aware of the educational challenges that come with increased cultural diversity derived from ethnic, linguistic, religious, socioeconomic and educational differences and their intersections. In many countries, teacher education programmes are expected to prepare teachers for this reality and develop their intercultural competences. This instrumental case study is based on a project that aims to initiate mobilizing networks between two music teacher programmes to explore intercultural music teacher education. In this study, we map the intercultural competences that are required of music teacher educators and that are provided in the music education programmes at two higher music education institutions in Israel and Finland. The data consists of 11 focus group interviews with music teacher educators at the Levinsky College of Education in Tel Aviv and the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, conducted by a multinational research team. The data was analysed abductively, using content analysis as a method. While the interviewed teacher educators could articulate many aspects of their own intercultural competences or the lack of them, the findings indicate that in musical diversity and teaching students from different musical backgrounds the teacher educators found it difficult to explain what kinds of intercultural competences their respective programmes provided for the students. Based on the findings, there is a need for a more holistic understanding of intercultural competences in music teacher education as well as how our institutions produce power. There is also a need for the teacher educators in the programmes to collaborate and discuss among each other in order to create “knowledge communities” and to move towards addressing intercultural issues.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1356336X2094957
Author(s):  
Björn Tolgfors ◽  
Erik Backman ◽  
Gunn Nyberg ◽  
Mikael Quennerstedt

The purpose of this study is to explore the recontextualisation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) as a particular content area in the transition between a university course and a school placement course within Swedish physical education teacher education (PETE). By combining Basil Bernstein’s pedagogic device and Stephen Ball’s performativity perspective, we alternately ask how AfL is constructed as a pedagogic discourse and what AfL becomes in different contexts within PETE. Nine students attending a Swedish PETE programme participated in the study. The empirical material was collected through one seminar and two group interviews at the university, as well as through nine individual interviews based on lesson observations at different school placements. Our findings highlight five recontextualising rules, which indicate that: (1) the task of integrating assessment into teaching enables the use of AfL; (2) an exclusive focus on summative assessment and grading constrains the use of AfL; (3) a lack of critical engagement with physical education teaching traditions constrains the use of AfL; (4) knowing the pupils is crucial for the use of AfL; and (5) the framing of the school placements determines how AfL can be used. As a consequence of these rules, AfL was transformed into three different fabrications: (1) AfL as ideal teaching; (2) AfL as correction of shortcomings; and (3) AfL as ‘what works’. One conclusion from this study is that increased collaboration between teacher educators and cooperating teachers in schools can help strengthen PETE’s influence on school physical education.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry A. Stinnett ◽  
Michael K. Cruce ◽  
Kurt T. Choate

Author(s):  
Abdul Nasir Kiazai ◽  
Zarina Waheed ◽  
Saba Rehman

A large number of children in Balochistan attend religious schools (Madrasas) that have been criticized for spreading extremist views in the society. Teacher education institutions play a vital role in bringing cultural and religious harmony by producing prospective teachers who are able to cultivate tolerance, acceptance, patriotism, ethnic, religious respect and counter extremism, sectarian, and discrimination prospective. This qualitative exploratory study explores whether the prospective teachers in Balochistan are trained enough to teach in religious schools. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and focused group discussions. All teacher educators and prospective teachers from the universities that remained part of Pre-STEP or Teacher Education Project (TEP) assisted by USAID constituted the population of the study. Sample was selected through purposive sampling from two universities situated in Quetta. 10 teacher educators (5+5) and 10 prospective teachers (5+5) were selected as sample for interviews while two groups of prospective teachers (5 participants in each) were selected from the both case universities for focus group interviews. Data were analyzed through thematic analysis. The findings indicated that the prospective teachers and teacher educators considered the recent teacher education programs in Balochistan not enough to train teachers to teach in religious schools. Keywords: Prospective Teachers; Religious Schools; Teacher Education Programs; Balochistan


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torunn Klemp ◽  
Vivi Nilssen

Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i et intervensjonsprosjekt i grunnskolelærerutdanninga. SKRIVUT-prosjektet svarer på en nasjonal og internasjonal etterspørsel etter gode møte­plasser for samarbeidet i lærerutdanninga. Møteplassen er et diskusjonsforum i It’s learning knyttet til praksisopplæringa der andreårsstudentene daglig skriver og får respons av medstudenter, praksislærer og faglærere i norsk og i pedagogikk og elevkunnskap. Studien som presenteres i artikkelen, bygger på kvalitativ analyse av loggdiskusjoner og intervjuer fra prosjektets andre år. Studien viser en faglig orientering i studentenes loggskriving og at det er mulig å etablere en samspillsarena. Den skriftlige dialogen i det digitale rommet viste seg å være drivende både for teoristudier og utvikling av fagspråk. Samtidig løftes praksislærers lokale og erfaringsbaserte kunnskap fram og settes i dialog med den teoribaserte kunnskapen. I diskusjonen tolkes karakteristiske trekk ved dialogen i det triadiske refleksjonsfellesskapet i lys av tenkning om behovet for situasjonsavgrensende og situasjonsoverskridende prosesser i læringskontekster. Funnene diskuteres opp mot studier som peker på at lærerstudenter og lærere har et mangelfullt fagspråk og er lite orientert mot etablert kunnskap.Nøkkelord: lærerutdanning, lærerstudenter, det digitale rom, samspillsarena, fagspråkAbstractThe background for this article is an intervention project in teacher education for primary school. The project addresses a worldwide call for meeting places for the triadic collabo­ration in teacher education. The meeting place is an asynchronous LMS-based discussion forum where second year student teachers write and receive daily response from fellow student teachers, mentors and professors in Norwegian (Mother Tongue) and in Pedagogy and Pupil-related Skills during field practice. The study presented in this article is based on a qualitative analysis of written log discussions and interviews from the second year of the project. The study shows that the student teachers have a subject-oriented focus in their writing. It also shows that it is possible to establish an arena for interplay. The written dialog in the digital room turned out to be a driving force regarding theoretical studies and the develop­ment of a professional language. At the same time, the mentor’s experience based knowledge is highlighted and put into dialog with the theory based knowledge. In the discussion, the characteristics of the triad’s dialog are interpreted in the light of theory on learning as a double process, focusing both on the particular situation and contextualizing the situation. The findings are discussed in the light of previous research on the lack of a sufficient pro­fessional language and lack of orientation towards established knowledge amongst student teachers and teachers.Keywords: teacher education, student teachers, the digital room, arena for interplay, professional language


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