Powerful Pedagogy: SelfStudy of a Teacher Educators Practice (SelfStudy of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, 6),Used

Product Description Powerful Pedagogy: SelfStudy of a Teacher Educators Practice is the outcome of the authors systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the authors pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using selfstudy as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in preservice teacher education; voice, silence and that which remains unsaid; the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching. Review An important methodological innovation is her particular method for using assumptions. Her strategy of assumption hunting and assumption unpacking are new and insightful tools for selfstudy scholars that can help researchers move from local knowledge to knowledge that can inform the discipline of teacher education learning.Robyns use of Roundtable Reflection guided by the ALACT reflection process, her critical incident reports, and her multiple perspectives tasks are tools that should become part of the methodological toolbelt of any scholar attempting selfstudy research. Professor Stefinee Pinnegar, Brigham Young University, USAThere are few studies that explore the teacher educators experience from this intimate, qualitative position, particularly in regard to the interaction between the teacher educator and the teacher education students. Still fewer studies explore the teaching of mathematics. This combination of important issues with this particular methodology suggest that this work will be a strong contribution to the knowledge base. Professor M. Hamilton, Kansas University, USAPedagogy refers to the synergistic relationship which exists between learning and teaching one informs and is impacted by the other. For me then, Powerful Pedagogy reflects the need to see teaching in new ways and to do so by placing inquiry at the centre of learning about the intricacies of teaching about teaching. Powerful Pedagogy is a "howtoseeteachingdifferently" book; one which identifies and raises for scrutiny and critique, the markers which help the learning about teaching as one attempts to enact a pedagogy of teacher education. Professor John Loughran, Foundation Chair, Curriculum & Professional Practice Associate Dean Faculty of Education Monash University (2007) From the Back Cover Powerful Pedagogy: SelfStudy of a Teacher Educators Practice is the outcome of the authors systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the authors pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using selfstudy as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in preservice teacher education; voice, silence and that which remains "unsaid"; the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching. Pedagogy refers to the synergistic relationship which exists between learning and teaching one informs and is impacted by the other. For me then, Powerful Pedagogy reflects the need to see teaching in new ways and to do so by placing inquiry at the centre of learning about the intricacies of teaching about teaching. Powerful Pedagogy is a "howtoseeteachingdifferently" book; one which identifies and raises for scrutiny and critique, the markers which help the learning about teaching as one attempts to enact a pedagogy of teacher education.Professor John Loughran, Foundation Chair, Curriculum & Professional Practice Associate Dean Faculty of Education Monash University (2007).