Language Teachers and Teaching: Global Perspectives, Local Initiatives

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Selim Ben Said, Lawrence Jun Zhang
Routledge, Oct 8, 2013 - Education - 378 pages

This volume gathers contributions from a range of global experts in teacher education to address the topic of language teacher education. It shows how teacher education involves the agency of teachers, which forms part of their identity, and which they take on when integrating into the teaching community of practice. In addition, the volume explores the teachers’ situated practice--the dynamic negotiation of classroom situations, socialization into the professional teaching culture, and "on the ground experimentation" with pedagogical skills/techniques.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
PART I Policy in Education
9
PART II TheoryPractice Nexus
57
PART III Beliefs Expectations and Negotiating a Professional Self
107
PART IV Reflective Practice Feedback and Facilitation
167
PART V Teaching and Learning in New Times
217
PART VI Teacher Learning in CrossCultural Contexts
269
Rethinking Global Perspectives and Local Initiatives in Language Teaching
317
Contributors
325
Author Index
333
Subject Index
341
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Selim Ben Said is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education.

Lawrence Jun Zhang is an associate professor of Language & Literacy Education at the University of Auckland.

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