Subject Knowledge and Teacher Education: The Development of Beginning Teachers' Thinking Contributor(s): Ellis, VIV (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826419887 ISBN-13: 9780826419880 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: Teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. In this book, Viv Ellis traces the development of three beginning teachers' thinking about their subject knowledge in the co |
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BISAC Categories: - Education | Research |
Dewey: 370.71 |
Series: Continuum Studies in Education (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.66 lbs) 208 pages |
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Publisher Description: Teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. In this book, Viv Ellis traces the development of three beginning teachers thinking about their subject knowledge in the context of Standards-based teacher education and the practice of auditing student teachers' subject knowledge. Ellis puts forward a theory of subject knowledge development that moves on from the objectivist and individualistic epistemologies associated with Standards and the practices of auditing to more a contextualist and sociocultural understanding of teachers' cognition and learning. An important implication of this study is that if teacher education wishes to have greater impact on the development of beginning teachers, teacher educators need to pay greater attention to the schools and subject department settings in which these beginning teachers learn. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ellis, VIV: - Viv Ellis is Professor and Head of the Department of Education at Brunel University, London, UK, and Professor II at Bergen University College in Norway. |