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New Knowledges for Teacher Educating?

Perspectives from Practicing Teacher Educators

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Building Bridges

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In the international conversations surrounding teacher quality, there is a deafening silence about teacher educator quality. In fact, there is very little discussion about what teacher educators should know and be able to do, and what their preparation should constitute—or if they even need preparation at all. An implicit assumption seems to be that in order to engage in educating teachers, one simply needs to transport one’s experience from the K-12 classroom to the university level (Berry, 2007; Dinkelman, Margolis, & Sikkenga, 2006; Lunenberg & Hamilton, 2008; Zeichner, 2005).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Toronto, Canada

    Clare Kosnik

  2. Monash University, Australia

    Simone White

  3. University of Toronto, Canada

    Clive Beck

  4. King’s College London, UK

    Bethan Marshall

  5. Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

    A. Lin Goodwin

  6. University of East London, UK

    Jean Murray

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Goodwin, A.L., Chen, C. (2016). New Knowledges for Teacher Educating?. In: Kosnik, C., White, S., Beck, C., Marshall, B., Goodwin, A.L., Murray, J. (eds) Building Bridges. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-491-6_11

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