ERIC Number: EJ1162596
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Publication Date: 2017
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University-School Partnerships in English Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Dialogic Inquiry into A Co-Teaching Initiative
Diamond, Fleur; Parr, Graham; Bulfin, Scott
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, v24 n3 p266-284 2017
Evidence has been accumulating for some time about the impact of standards-based education reforms on schools and schooling, but there has been little research investigating the influence of these reforms on university-based initial teacher education (ITE). This article critically inquiries into the effects of these reforms on an ITE co-teaching project where a secondary English teacher in a school was seconded to work for a year as a teacher educator in an Australian university in a praxis-based partnership. Using Cavarero's framing of "who" and "what" narratives, and Bakhtinian discourse theory, the authors present three autobiographical narratives exploring different perspectives on their experiences in the co-teaching partnership. The article affirms the value of school--university praxis partnerships for speaking back to standards-based reforms, but acknowledges that this speaking back involves complex relational and dialogic work in grappling with institutional and system-wide policies and practices.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, English Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Educational Change, Praxis, Personal Narratives, Teacher Collaboration, Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Accountability, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Educators, Team Teaching
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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