Challenges Enacting Caring Teacher Education

Networked Knowledge: Challenges for Teacher Education

Since 1990, the invention and popularization of the World Wide Web has caused an inversion in the information economy of education. Twenty years ago, when learners were set a task that required them to locate information about any but the most common topics, the challenge was most often to find relevant current information in the limited books and other resources available in the school, home o...

Challenges for Curriculum Leadership in Contemporary Teacher Education

This paper outlines the complex contemporary milieu of Australian teacher education within which curriculum leaders responsible for designing teacher education programs must make their program design decisions. Particular attention is paid to the collision of vertical (‘hierarchical’ or 'academic rationalist') and horizontal (‘flat’ or 'student-centred') curriculum discourses as a program desig...

Enacting A Space of Possibility in Education

The Enactive is an approach to cognition, or a way of experiencing within a reality that is not pre-given. Francisco Varela (1999) speaks of a world that is enacted as inseparable from how we act in it. Our knowing emerges through our bodyminds interacting with/in the world, rather than being something we try to control and represent. This interplay exists throughout embodied actions, and our e...

Contemporary challenges in education for the caring professions: education for nursing, midwifery, and health visiting.

REVIEW OF TEACHER EDUCATION IN CALL Teacher Education in CALL

The use of technology has become increasingly important in language teaching and learning. The successful use of technology, however, requires that language teachers have the necessary technical competence and pedagogical knowledge. The volume Teacher Education in CALL, edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy, appears at a critical time when the issue of how to prepare current and future languag...