Multiple facets of supervision: Cooperative teachers’ views of supervision in early childhood teacher education practicums

Children's knowledge, teachers' knowledge: Implications for early childhood teacher education

Does Early Childhood Teacher Education Affect Students' Cognitive Orientations? The Effect of Different Education Tracks in Teacher Education on Prospective Early Childhood Teachers' Cognitive Orientations in Germany

Early childhood teachers may differ regarding the knowledge base they use when making professional decisions. In this study two orientations are distinguished: the orientation towards scientific knowledge vs. the orientation towards intuition and subjective experience. As different tracks in early childhood teacher education qualify for professional practice, and as education of early childhood...

Framing the Future: Beyond Teacher Supervision

In this paper the author argues that teachers have hardly ever liberated from their profession. They have been subjects of supervision by headmasters, officials, and inspectors. The development of in-service education of teachers (INSET) and teacher supervision show that teachers are under controlled by the system and administrators in one way or another; teachers have little chance of particip...

Supervision of Supervision

At the very beginning of working with the group as a supervisor – the dynamics of which I will analyse more thoroughly in the section Personal Experience, group members were discussing their personal experience of the supervisee’s position, their past, present and anticipated relationship with the supervisor and their experience of the supervision of the supervisor. Although they broached many ...

Pre-service teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules

How to cite this article: Gierdien, F. (2012). Preservice teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules. Pythagoras, 33(1), Art. #134, 10 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/pythagoras. v33i1.134 This article reports on the views of intermediate and senior phase pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in mathematics education modules that attempt to teach both content and pedagog...