Jon Wagner
As a framework for stimulating further, empirical investigation, I describe three different forms of direct researcher practitioner cooperation: data-extraction agreements, clinical partnerships, and co-learning agreements. Each form reflects different social arrangements, inquiry and reporting stra...
Mohammad Tariq Ahsan, Umesh Sharma, Joanne Deppeler
Introduction What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave (Bandura, 1986, p. 25). Inclusion of from diverse backgrounds (i.e., with disabilities and from socially disadvantaged backgrounds) in the mainstream regular education is a global trend in recent days to ensure rights to educa...
Barnett Berry
What is known about recruiting and retaining teachers for hard-to-staff-schools runs counter to many of the assumptions undergirding the teacher quality provisions of No Child Left Behind. Evidence regarding incentives, recruitment pathways, new teacher induction programs, and alternative routes she...
Everett M. Rogers, Arvind Singhal
Empowerment is the process through which individuals perceive that they control situations. Such perceived agency is a fundamental behavior change, which often leads to many other behavior changes. The present chapter synthesizes research on empowerment and communication in the developing nations of...
Samuel B. Bacharach, Scott C. Bauer, Sharon Conley
This article is an organizational analysis of stress in 42 elementary school organizations and 45 secondary school organizations. Organizational stress is operationalized as the aggregate average response to survey questions on the teachers' level of general stress on the job. The predictors of stre...
Mohammad Tariq Ahsan, Joanne Deppeler, Umesh Sharma
This study reports on the second phase of a larger study, which investigated the preparedness of pre-service teachers to teach in inclusive classrooms in Bangladesh. Phase 1 employed two standardised scales that were used with 1623 pre-service teachers from 16 teacher education institutions to measu...
Kazi Enamul Hoque, Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Abdul Ghani Kanesean Abdullah
Alison G. Dover
Abstract Teaching for social justice is an increasingly popular emphasis among P–12 teachers and teacher educators alike. However, research suggests teachers, and especially beginning teachers, struggle to enact their social justice visions when faced with the myriad of mandates characteristic of to...
Margaret Reynolds
This article examines the implications of the change from competences to standards for initial teacher training. It analyses the implicit interpretation of quality and standards of practice in Teacher Training Agency (TTA) documentation and compares it to that of the Management Charter Initiative in...
Anwar Ahmed, Nasrin Pervin
In this article, we report on a small-scale study in which we investigated English-language teachers' engagement with educational research. We conceptualized engagement with research as reading and systematically using research for professional development. Using questionnaires and in-depth intervie...
Hilary Thornton
Teacher collaboration and support given from one teacher to another, focused on improving teaching and learning in the classroom, are notable by their absence in secondary schools in Bangladesh. This article identifies a number of constraints to developing a collaborative culture including the diffi...
Camilla Vásquez, Alfredo Urzúa
Abstract In this study, we addressed the identity work performed by directly reported speech versus directly reported mental states (e.g., thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and emotions) in situated discourse. Drawing on a corpus of talk produced by novice language teachers during mentoring sessions, t...
Rachel Jakhelln, Gunilla Eklund, Jessica Aspfors, Kristin Emilie Willumsen Bjørndal et al.
This study examines newly qualified teachers’ (NQTs) understandings of research-based teacher education practices by looking at two cases in Finland and Norway. The NQTs were interviewed after they had finished their master’s degrees and before they started their careers. The results of the individu...
Mohammad Tariq Ahsan, Umesh Sharma, Joanne Deppeler
This paper reveals the beliefs of higher education institutional heads about the challenges they face in preparing pre-service teachers for inclusive education in Bangladesh. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 institutional heads. Data were analysed by applying thematic analysis proce...
Shaista Bibi, Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan
In this paper, we discuss how a university lecturer (pseudonym: James) drew on his technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) when planning to integrate technology in teaching. The main purpose of the study was to use real-life planning observations to understand James’s TPACK. The data...