P. Denicolo - Connecting Policy and Practice: Challenges for teaching and learning in schools and universities

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CONNECTING POLICY AND PRACTICE

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at an international conference on issues related to teachers and teaching and how they understand and act on matters of theory and practice. Topics are of interest to novice and veteran teachers as well as those involved in policy making, curriculum development and teachers professional development.

The book contains five sections which address, amongst others, the following themes:

Teacher educationprofessional identity, professional research, and quality of teacher education.

Teacher practicebasic values, tacitly implies ethics and cultural scaffolding.

Higher educationacademic motivation, discourse dissonance concerning intellectual property, self-studies of teacher education practice.

Teacher developmentthe challenge to be the best teacher, the link between policy and practice, personal theory and practice in tertiary development.

Research and theoryreflective practice, shared democratic values, teachers and researchers.

This volume derives from the work of experienced researchers, most of whom are themselves practising teachers. It is international in scope and context, demonstrating differences and similarities between and within countries. Educational practitioners and policy makers will benefit from reading this thought-provoking book.

Pam M.Denicolo is Director of the Graduate School for Social Sciences at the University of Reading, UK. Michael Kompf is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, Canada.

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EDITED BY

Pam M.Denicolo
and
Michael Kompf

LONDON AND NEW YORK

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First published 2005
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2005 Pam M.Denicolo and Michael Kompf for selection and editorial
material. Individual chapters the contributors

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This book is dedicated to the members of ISATTthe International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching. For more than two decades the ISATT community has willingly travelled around Europe and the UK, to Canada, and soon to Australia (July, 2005). To new members of ISATT: the works expressed in this volume are markers of thoughtuse them, as you will, and share with us how you craft your own.

We also dedicate this volume to Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, a long-time ISATT member and valued colleague who passed away during the time ISATT was meeting in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 2003. We dedicate this volume to her memory and the excellence she demonstrated and fostered in students and colleagues.

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