International Perspectives on the Professional Development of Teacher Educators in Contemporary University Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together four research teams representing three different countries in order to present both current research on the holistic professional development of teacher educators and new pedagogies for preparing them for work in teacher education. The two research presentations and the two pedagogical discussions all share sociocultural, situated, complexity-minded views of professional learning in education. The symposium is designed so that all four presentations—one from the US, one from Australia, and two from the Netherlands—inter-relate in ways for the audience to get a holistic conceptual, pedagogical, and empirical sense of how these countries are currently studying and supporting the recruitment, preparation, and ongoing development of university teacher educators’ lives and work.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Lives of Teachers

Chair

• Brad Olsen, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• Examining the Professional Learning of Teacher Educators - J. John Loughran, Monash University

• An Analysis of the Professional Identity Development of University Teacher Educators in California - Brad Olsen, University of California - Santa Cruz; Rebecca Buchanan, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Identity Change of Teacher Educators Through Core Reflection - Fred A.J. Korthagen, Utrecht University; William L. Greene, Southern Oregon University; Younghee M. Kim, Southern Oregon University; Erin M. Wilder, Southern Oregon University

• “You Do Not Fit Here Anymore”: Developing a Research Identity as Teacher Educator - Anja Swennen, VU University Amsterdam; Monique L. Volman, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Research Institute Child Development and Education; Gerda Geerdink, Vocational University of Arnhem and Nijmegen

Discussant

• Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College