Improving Teacher Education Practice Through Self-study

John Loughran is a teacher educator at Monash University, Australia.Tom Russell is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, Canada. The authors have previously collaborated on Teaching about Teaching (RoutledgeFalmer, 1999).

• 1. Can Self-study Improve Teacher Education? Section 1: Understanding Teaching in Teacher Education 2. Developing an Understanding of Learning to Teach in Teacher Education 3. A Balancing Act: Self-study in Valuing the Individual Student 4. Opposites Attract: What I Learned About Being a Classroom Teacher by Being a Teacher-educator 5. How Well Did We Structure and Model a Self-study Stance? Two Self-studies of Imposing Self-studies Using Teacher Portfolios Section 2: Studying Teacher Educators' Roles and Responsibilities 6. Guiding New Teachers' Learning From Classroom Experience: Self-study of the Faculty Liaison Role 7. Good Luck, Goodbye, Have a Nice Career: Questioning Our Responsibilities and Our Learning as Teacher Educators 8. Framing Professional Discourse with Teachers: Professional Working Theory 9. Can Self-study Challenge the Myth that Telling, and Guide-practice Constitute Adequate Teacher Education? Section 3: Fostering Social Justice in Teaching about Teaching 10. The In(Visibility) of Race in Narrative Constructions of the Self 11. 'Nothing Grand': Small Tales and Working for Social Justice 12. Change, Social Justice and Re-liability: Reflections of a Secret (Change) Agent Section 4: Exploring Myths in Teacher Education 13. A Collaborative Self-study on Teaching Myths 14. What Gets Mythed in the Student Evaluations of Their Teacher Education Professors? 15. Confronting the Myth(s) that Bind Us: Research as a Way of Knowing and Seeing 16. Understanding Self-study of Teacher Education Practices

'Improving Teacher Education Practices Through Self-Studyoffers access to a range of powerful and evocative, yet challenging narratives that push the boundaries of teaching practice and simultaneously celebrate the scholarship of teaching ... It will serve as a key text for teacher educators committed to self-study and growth and to the dissemination of teaching scholarship.' - Escalate