61.054 - Transitions and Transformations: Teacher Educators' Journeys of Becoming

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The objectives of this session are to share, explore and discuss ways in which change, transitions and transformations shape the professional knowledge, identities and practices of teacher educators over time, while providing insight into processes of professional becoming and its impact on pedagogy. Teacher educators from five countries will contribute short narratives on how they ‘became’ teacher educators in relation to personal/ professional transitions. The symposium offers discussion opportunities, informed by varying contexts and experience, about university-based teacher educators and the role of higher education and research in reshaping understanding and practice, at this time of significant international debate and change in teacher education.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 3: Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Lives: Lived Experiences, Identities, Socialization and Development

Chair

• Judy Joy Williams, Monash University

Papers

• On Becoming a Democratic Teacher Educator - Nathan D. Brubaker, Monash University

• The Process of Becoming a Teacher Educator: Changes in Teaching Practices - Rodrigo Fuentealba, Universidad San Sebastian; Helena Loreto Montenegro, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• The Long and Winding Road: Stories of Becoming a Teacher Educator - Susan E. Elliott-Johns, Nipissing University

• A Work in Progress. Transitions and Transformations: Teacher Educators' Journeys of Becoming - Joseph C. Senese, Northwestern University

• On the Journey of Becoming a Teacher Educator - Michael Hayler, The University of Brighton

Discussant

• Robert V. Bullough, Brigham Young University