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ERIC Number: EJ1051475
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-7476
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What and How Teacher Educators Prefer to Learn
Dengerink, Jurriën; Lunenberg, Mieke; Kools, Quinta
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v41 n1 p78-96 2015
In which areas and domains do individual teacher educators prefer to work on their professional development? What kind of learning activities do they want to take on and with whom? Are there significant differences in these preferences between teacher educators? This article reports on a recent survey (N = 268) about the professional development of teacher educators and differences in learning preferences between less and more experienced teacher educators and between university-based and school-based teacher educators. Findings show, for example, that while most university-based teacher educators were mainly interested in improving their teaching, less experienced school-based teacher educators were more focussed on aspects such as coaching skills. In this study, "learning profiles" have been developed for four categories of teacher educators. These profiles may help to create more meaningful arrangements for teacher educators' initial education and further professional development in a context where teacher education is required to have a more school-based as well as a more research-based orientation.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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