In this paper we argue that whilst state regulation over teacher education in South Africa appears to be increasing, the current reform climate creates spaces for academics operating within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to significantly influence official knowledge for teachers and teaching. We recruit aspects of Basil Bernstein’s sociology of pedagogy to analyse the policy and instituti...

Teacher trainers/educators play a key role in the process of normalisation, as defined by Bax (2003), in the training of foreign language teachers to use technology as a regular part of their practice. This study explores teacher trainer attitudes towards adopting technology, their readiness to use it on teacher training courses, and their current levels of comfort in integrating it on Cambridg...

INTRODUCTION The occurrence of burnout syndrome (BS) has been recognized in many professions (pilots, firefighters, police officers, doctors…) that during their work are subjected to high levels of stress. For educators in preschool institutions stress level is very high thus creating the possibility of developing BS. MATERIAL AND METHODS For this research is selected preschool institution - ...

Teacher retention is problematic, especially where foreign language educators are concerned. In an effort to study if a relationship exists between foreign language teacher efficacy and retention, the author created a new quantitative instrument to measure foreign language teacher efficacy (N = 441) in the southeastern region of the United States. The Foreign Language Teacher Efficacy Scale was...

Online social networking tools developed for educators promise better mentorship, professional development and resource sharing among teachers. This paper presents a model of teacher mentoring behaviors within an existing middle school teacher social networking site. We analyze how teachers help others in discussion forums and learn a model that describes their behavior. Our initial results ind...

There is a shift towards increased accountability and assessment in schools this echoed an Irish context, with neglected area of study teacher education programmes. The aim to explore educators understanding school-based practices how they prepare pre-service teachers assess schools. Interviews sample attached 13 programmes, residing two associated higher institutes, conveyed the policy implica...

Educators exert a tremendous influence on gifted children’s academic and socialemotional development, thus their perceptions of these students is critical. Many factors are associated with a successful classroom experience for the gifted child, and the classroom teacher plays a vital role in that success. The teacher influences not only the academic side of classroom life, but the personal one ...

The aim of this paper is to describe the identity and agency two teacher educators who explored critical language education by following a comprehensive sexuality (CSE) approach gender perspective in their English teaching methodology modules. study adopted duoethnographic through which (based Argentina Germany respectively) reflected on practice maintaining regular Zoom meetings shared online ...