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1 online resource (153 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Reflection and Critical Reflection -- 1.3 Social Context in Teacher Education -- 1.4 ePortfolios and Prospective Teacher Reflection -- 1.5 About the Research -- 1.6 About this Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Who Celebrates Kwanzaa? The Struggle for Critical Reflection and Transformative Learning -- 2.1 Tales of Success: Avoiding Critical Reflection with Positive Description of Technical Procedures -- 2.2 Absence of Evidence, Not Evidence of Absence |
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2.3 Critical Reflections Struggle to Emerge -- Languages Spoken at Home are Comforts -- The Principle of Equity Is What I Strive to Achieve In and Out of My Classroom -- 2.4 Performative but Not Transformative -- Even Johnny, Who Should Not be Included, Worked Well! -- I Think That's Her Culture -- 2.5 Problematizing the Performance -- 2.6 Epilogue: Fading Memories -- References -- Chapter 3: Looking Back on What Was Good and What Was Bad: Prospective Teachers' Understanding of Critical Reflection -- 3.1 Looking Back on What Was Good and What Was Bad -- 3.2 Reflection as an "Assignment Term." |
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3.3 Where You Go from Here -- 3.4 Epilogue: The Goal of Preparing Reflective Teachers -- References -- Chapter 4: It's Me Doing Work for Someone Else: Prospective Teachers' Attitudes Toward the ePortfolio Reflection Requirements -- 4.1 The Place of the ePortfolio in the Teacher Education Program -- 4.2 We Get Mixed Views -- 4.3 It's a Good Form of Accountability -- 4.4 Epilogue: I Actually Benefit From It -- References -- Chapter 5: I Want to be Seen as the Best I Can: How the Teacher Education Program Conditions Prospective Teachers' Reflection Strategies -- 5.1 Cherry-Picking |
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5.2 I Know Who My Audience Is -- 5.3 I Want to be seen as the Best I Can for My Job -- 5.4 I Present It in the Way to Meet Expectations of the Teacher -- 5.5 Disjuncture Between Performance and Program Expectations -- 5.6 Epilogue: The Performance of Reflection -- References -- Chapter 6: Awesome, Awesome: Missed Opportunities for Transformative Learning -- 6.1 Awesome, Awesome, You Guys Did a Great Job -- 6.2 I Don't Really Have Anything for You to Focus on: Influences by Cooperating Teachers -- 6.3 I Think We Are Just Similar: Forming Conformity to Defend the "Outsider." |
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6.4 Teacher Educators Push for Transformative Learning -- Transformative Learning Outside of the ePortfolio -- Critical Reflection Through Reading and Discussion -- 6.5 Epilogue: Program Fragmentation and Lack of Support for Teacher Educators -- References -- Chapter 7: Supporting Prospective Teachers' Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning -- 7.1 The Five Factors Affecting Prospective Teachers' Reflection and Teaching -- 7.2 A Data-Driven Approach to Teacher Education -- Build Consistency Within the Teacher Education Programs -- Build Consistency Over the Semesters |
| Summary |
This book provides a research-based guide to using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative learning for educational equity. It begins with a conceptualization of critical reflection in teacher education, then analyzes the social discourse of prospective teachers' teaching practice through their ePortfolio reflections, triangulated by classroom teaching observations and interviews. The results of the research show that prospective teachers' reflections are performative and do not typically trigger transformative learning, in large part because of discrepancies in the structures of the ePortfolio, the goals of the teacher education program, and the mentoring and supervisory practices. With this analysis in hand, the book turns to practical questions, providing a transformative framework along with examples and tips for teacher educators to use the author's methods to understand and analyze prospective teachers' reflection and support their transformative learning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2021) |
| Subject |
Teachers -- Training of.
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Electronic portfolios in education.
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Transformative learning.
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Transformative learning
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Electronic portfolios in education
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Teachers -- Training of
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Educational technology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3319019554 |
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9783319019550 |
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