Successful Teacher Education : Partnerships, Reflective Practice and the Place of Technology

This volume presents distinctive, innovative models of teacher education from Australia, discusses their successful elements and considers possibilities for successful teacher education in the twenty-first century. Each model is couched within the international teacher education concerns of the theory practice nexus, school-university partnerships, reflective practice, and the role of technology. The contributing authors, drawn from different contexts and locations around Australia, each offers research-based perspectives on successful teacher education. Responses to teacher education challenges in rural and regional contexts, metropolitan areas, among low socio-economic populations and Indigenous communities are considered. Ways in which technology, and in particular mobile technology, can be used to support learning across these diverse contexts are illustrated, as is the role of reflective practice to encourage critical reflection for improving teacher learning. Collectively, the authors present a range of directions that can guide the future of teacher education both nationally and internationally, demonstrating that context, partnerships, reflection and technology are critical elements in the provision of successful teacher education. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 The Melbourne Graduate School of Education Master of Teaching....Pages 11-29 Immersing Pre-Service Teachers in Site-Based Teacher School-University Partnerships....Pages 31-48 Linking Rural and Regional Communities into Teacher Education....Pages 49-64 Structuring an Online Pre-Service Education Program....Pages 65-81 A Model for Small, Remote, Indigenous Communities....Pages 83-99 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Communication in the Practicum....Pages 103-120 ‘Practice’....Pages 121-135 Mobile Technologies in Teacher Education....Pages 137-151 Reflective Practice in the Online Space....Pages 153-173 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Successful and ‘Transferable’ Practice....Pages 177-194 Back Matter....Pages 195-198