Working the Third Space: Reformulating Practice in the Transition from Classroom Teacher to Teacher Educator

Autor/inn/en	Diamond, Fleur; Wescott, Stephanie; Molloy, Kristen
Titel	Working the Third Space: Reformulating Practice in the Transition from Classroom Teacher to Teacher Educator
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46 (2021) 1, S.39-54, Artikel 3 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1835-517X
Schlagwörter	Teacher Education; Teacher Educators; Adjustment (to Environment); Teaching Experience; Educational Change; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; Personal Narratives; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Teacher education; Education; Bildungsreform; Bildungspraxis; Ausland; Erlebniserzählung; Australien
Abstract	The working lives and identities of teacher educators remain an under-researched aspect of teacher education. This paper reports on a collaborative narrative inquiry by three early career teacher educators as they made the transition from classroom practice in schools, to teacher education in a university setting. The authors confronted technical understandings, or 'official stories' (Zukas & Malcolm, 2019) of what it means to prepare prospective teachers, derived from contemporary standards-based policies about teacher professionalism. The paper proposes the concept of 'working the third space' as a way of framing teacher educators' efforts to draw upon classroom teaching experience while challenging reductive understandings of teachers' work. We argue that understanding teacher education as a 'third space' practice speaks back to narrow discourses of teacher education that frames it as the unproblematic transfer of practice from experienced to novice practitioner. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01