Reflection in teacher education: exploring pre‐service teachers’ meanings of reflective practice

Developing online communities of practice in preservice teacher education

Despite attempts to encourage greater teacher collegiality, the privacy of the classroom persists. Online communication tools offer opportunities for teachers to overcome these boundaries in professional communities of practice. This study of two cohorts of preservice teachers sought to determine if they were successful in building community in class and online and to examine factors in the too...

Take on Issues and uses of Reflection and Reflective Practice in Nursing Education

Introduction: In the recent decades, reflection have been introduced as a valuable element in nursing education and a learning tool in improving nursing professional practice. The study of reflection and reflective practice topics and applications in nursing education facsilitates closing the gap between theory and practice and promoting critical thinking. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

Exploring preservice teachers' views of intelligence

Reflective communicator roles in preservice teacher team email discussions

The objective was to model a type of effective team participant, the reflective communicator, and the variety of communicative roles that they conducted during four, eight-person preservice teacher team email discussions of their classroom observations. An aggregate statistical analysis revealed significant correlations between the quality of reflective observations provided, and the number and...

The Role of Preservice Teacher Education

I deas about teacher education are strongly influenced by a received wisdom about learning to teach. Most citizens in the United States who have thought much about teaching subscribe to the received wisdom, and most teachers subscribe to it as well. The most vocal and visible group not subscribing to the received wisdom is teacher educators. Here is why. According to received wisdom, teaching i...