Purpose This paper presents the results of my learning using expertise in teacher-research mentoring to address needs pre-service teachers and requirements action research course English language teaching. It reflects on different procedures model, enriched by dialogic strategies informed Freire's pedagogy. Design/methodology/approach Through this first-person research, author aims improve her ...

We report insights from a design research study in higher education that aims at overcoming pre-service teachers’ experiences of fragmentation their educational programmes. The approach started the assumption could be reduced by initiating and conducting boundary crossing between practices subject matter didactics courses university. Following this assumption, principle design(ing) for interlin...

Starting from the key competencies for a knowledge society, this paper examines the information and communication technology (ICT) competency needed by teachers for effective teaching in the 21st-century. The paper analyzes the existing pre-service education programmes for teachers’ ICT competency in Lithuanian universities and colleges, self-evaluation of future teachers of their technological...

Associate teachers play a significant role in the preparation of pre-service teachers in Canadian universities. The literature on the subject indicates that the practicum component of the pre-service teacher education is considered by teacher candidates to be their most valuable learning experience. Therefore, Faculties of Education are constantly exploring new ways of engaging associates in re...