scholarly journals Using Book Clubs to Support Inquiry in Teacher Education

Author(s):  
Patrick Dean Hales ◽  
Laura Hasselquist ◽  
Tony Durr

The bombardment of information on students in higher education has created a need for not only information processing skills but improved communicative competence and interpersonal relationship skills. In an attempt to address this, we have implemented book clubs in our undergraduate teacher education courses. In these book clubs, we facilitate students in both critique and analysis of perspectives at difference with one another as well as the process of communicating on a professional level. The results have been students who feel more confident in evaluating literature and hosting conversations with critical elements.

Author(s):  
Sharon Smaldino ◽  
Lara Luetkehans

With all higher education educational endeavors there is a transformative element that enhances the progression forward in terms of academic program development. Teacher education is no exception to this aspect of the evolutionary process. The authors' story of that transformation and the impact of creative endeavors in teacher education offer a sense of moving beyond the traditional to the transformative in teacher education. Carter (1993) offers that the story can offer a perspective on our work and inform teacher education on the directions we might take to bring about improvement in our efforts to prepare educators for the future. The authors' story begins with a strong foundation and commitment to understanding the critical elements of successful partnerships. This foundation has served them for 15 years, and two distinct eras of partnership work that delineate the transformation. The authors explore each era: “The Professional Development School (PDS) Story” followed by “10 Years Later.”


Author(s):  
Allison Ivey ◽  
Julie L. Begbie

This chapter introduces a storied learning model to create opportunities for praxis within teacher education courses in order to humanize student experiences through book clubs. As many argue that people perceive the world in narrative form, embedding book clubs within methods courses creates opportunities for pre-service teachers to explore and reflect upon unfamiliar experiences, identities, and stories in order to cultivate their critical consciousness. Building off of Bishop's metaphor of mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors, as well as existing literature that discusses the use of book clubs in pre-service teacher methods courses, two case studies are offered highlighting theoretical and practical ways for book clubs to be embedded within methods courses. Case studies are followed by a framework for implementation that considers research in both critical pedagogy and reading comprehension.


1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Wilson ◽  
Alison Hine ◽  
Rosemary Dobbins ◽  
Evelyn Bransgrove ◽  
Julie Elterman

Author(s):  
Keith Roscoe

Several faculty members including the author were involved in exploring the implementation and effectiveness of research-based assessment strategies in their undergraduate teacher education courses at a Canadian university. The paper describes the process and the results of their ongoing improvement efforts and implications for teacher education and higher education in general. After attending several assessment workshops lead by the author, 12 faculty members implemented new assessment strategies in their own courses to enhance student learning. As the 12 faculty members reflected on their efforts to enhance assessment, a number of themes emerged. These included assessment as authentic performance, establishing clear learning targets, collaboration and community, and integrated assessment and instruction. Our results support the claim that current ideas about K-12 assessment are applicable to post-secondary education and can improve student learning outcomes. Developing balanced and integrated assessment systems is perhaps the most significant innovation we engaged in and we conclude that it has the potential to fundamentally change what occurs in university classrooms. Plusieurs professeurs, y compris l’auteur, ont exploré la mise en oeuvre et l’efficacité de stratégies d’évaluation basées sur la recherche dans le cadre de leurs cours de formation pour les enseignants. L’article décrit le processus et les résultats de leurs efforts pour améliorer la formation des enseignants et plus généralement l’enseignement, ainsi que les implications de cette approche. Après avoir participé à plusieurs ateliers sur l’évaluation dirigés par l’auteur, 12 professeurs ont mis en oeuvre de nouvelles stratégies d’évaluation dans leurs propres cours pour améliorer l’apprentissage des étudiants. Quand les 12 professeurs ont réfléchi sur leurs efforts pour améliorer l’évaluation, un certain nombre de thèmes sont apparus, entre autres : l’évaluation en tant que performance authentique, l’établissement d’objectifs d’apprentissage clairs, la collaboration et la communauté, l’intégration de l’évaluation et de l’instruction. Nos résultats étayent l’affirmation selon laquelle les théories actuelles sur l’évaluation dans les écoles (K-12) sont applicables en enseignement post-secondaire et peuvent améliorer l’apprentissage des étudiants. Le développement de systèmes d’évaluation équilibrés et intégrés est peut-être l’innovation la plus importante dans laquelle nous nous engageons et nous en concluons que cette pratique a le potentiel de changer radicalement ce qui se passe dans les salles de classe des universités.


Author(s):  
Angelia Reid-Griffin

The chapter explores the way technologies in higher education are providing teacher education candidates a new view of learning. An explanation of how e-portfolios are becoming more common tools for students to reflect on their practices and showcase course artifacts for future applications. The chapter highlights selected learning management systems (LMS), Blackboard and Canvas, and describes how their e-portfolio features aids the reflective practices of students in a teacher education program. Examples of e-portfolio artifacts are provided using these systems. Discussion on how they compare with other e-portfolio resources, Digication and Taskstream, is included to help guide programs to the best tool for their programs. By exploring how these e-portfolio technologies are currently being used in a teacher education course, this chapter provides insight to viewing teacher development for other teacher education courses and programs through more consistent and intentional use of e-portfolios.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Eric King-Man Chong ◽  
Ian Davies ◽  
Shun-Shing Pao

This paper analyses the learning impacts of a social justice learning unit, which was implemented through three lectures in each of two undergraduate teacher education courses in 2017/18 across two semesters. The design of the unit allows for social inquiry and experiential learning in the undergraduate curriculum. A sequential mixed-methods design was adopted, with pre and post questionnaire and interview data gathered from undergraduate students. We argue that learning and applying social justice concepts through group inquiry and other learning activities on social justice related issues, together with an experiential learning site visit, can facilitate the development of understanding of both the concept and application of social justice, a positive perception towards ethnic minorities and a desire for further learning and engagement in the community. This study would be useful for any university educators who want to teach about and for social justice in ways that may help students to develop an increased willingness for community service.


Author(s):  
Jenny Magnusson

Independence is becoming an increasingly important factor in Swedish higher education, especially in relation to undergraduate degree projects. Despite this, there is no shared understanding of what independence is or whether it is to be found in the finished text or in the supervision interaction. In this article I look at one specific definition of independence: the ability to position oneself and one’s work in relation to sources. Three supervision meetings are analysed, selected from a larger body of recorded material from teacher education courses in Sweden. I explore how independence can be enacted in the supervision of undergraduate degree projects, drawing on the analytical framework of appraisal. The theoretical framework is derived from the socio-cultural and dialogical perspective, which proposes that learning and understanding develop in context through interaction and dialogue. Independence, from this perspective, is something that can be explored in enactments in interactions of different kinds. The findings show that the students use different resources in order to relate to sources on different levels, and these levels could be related to independence in different ways.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gess ◽  
Christoph Geiger ◽  
Matthias Ziegler

Abstract. Although the development of research competency is an important goal of higher education in social sciences, instruments to measure this outcome often depend on the students’ self-ratings. To provide empirical evidence for the utility of a newly developed instrument for the objective measurement of social-scientific research competency, two validation studies across two independent samples were conducted. Study 1 ( n = 675) provided evidence for unidimensionality, expected differences in test scores between differently advanced groups of students as well as incremental validities over and above self-perceived research self-efficacy. In Study 2 ( n = 82) it was demonstrated that the competency measured indeed is social-scientific and relations to facets of fluid and crystallized intelligence were analyzed. Overall, the results indicate that the test scores reflected a trainable, social-scientific, knowledge-related construct relevant to research performance. These are promising results for the application of the instrument in the evaluation of research education courses in higher education.


Author(s):  
M.A. Dolova ◽  
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R.I. Yagudina ◽  
N.I. Gavrilina ◽  
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Currently, the increase in the efficiency of pharmacy organizations is due to the efficiency of team management. Each pharmacy organization strives to strengthen the workforce and monitors staff turnover rates, because this can affect the economic results of the organization. The most effective tool for preventing the layoff of staff turnover. This article presents the results of a sociological study of the factors that lead pharmaceutical workers to change jobs. The objects of the study were pharmaceutical workers of pharmaceutical organizations of various organizational and legal forms in Moscow. The methodological basis of the research was formed by general theoretical methods of information processing: analysis, systematization, grouping, comparison and generalization. Based on the analysis of 214 questionnaires of pharmaceutical workers, the frequency of job changes was revealed, and this indicator wa s studied depending on the length of service. It was found that pharmaceutical workers with higher education are more committed to the pharmaceutical industry, but at the same time, one in three of them expressed a desire to change jobs while remaining in the profession. The analysis of value-oriented factors made it possible to identify the main reasons leading pharmaceutical workers to change jobs.


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