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1. What Expert Teachers Do

   Enhancing Professional Knowledge for Classroom Practice

   By John Loughran

   How do expert teachers do it? How do they enhance student learning? How do they manage the dilemmas and tensions inherent in working with 25 different students in every lesson? Internationally respected teacher educator John Loughran argues that teachers’ knowledge of what they do is largely...

   Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
2. Enacting a Pedagogy of Teacher Education

   Values, Relationships and Practices

   Edited by Tom Russell, John Loughran

   Building on John Loughran’s latest work Developing a Pedagogy of Teacher Education, this book focuses on how individuals enact pedagogy in the context of teacher education. With teacher educators actually teaching while showing student-teachers how to teach, the quality of teacher education...

   Published March 14th 2007 by Routledge
3. Developing a Pedagogy of Teacher Education

   Understanding Teaching & Learning about Teaching

   By John Loughran

   A pedagogy of teacher education must go well beyond the simple delivery of information about teaching. This book describes and explores the complex nature of teaching and of learning about teaching, illustrating how important teacher educators' professional knowledge is and how that knowledge...

   Published November 30th 2005 by Routledge
4. Leadership and Professional Development in Science Education

   New Possibilities for Enhancing Teacher Learning

   Edited by John Wallace, John Loughran

   Leadership and Professional Development in Science Education provides invaluable insight into the role of science teachers as learners and thinkers of change processes. The fourteen chapters, by an eminent international team of science educators, explain and explore the relationship between...

   Published April 23rd 2003 by Routledge
5. Improving Teacher Education Practice Through Self-study

   By John Loughran, Tom Russell

   Self-study in teacher education is a growing field and a natural progression from the concept of reflective practice for pre-service teachers. This book is designed to introduce teacher educators to the theory and practice of self-study, in order to explore, understand and improve their teaching...

   Published March 13th 2002 by Routledge
6. Researching Teaching

   Methodologies and Practices for Understanding Pedagogy

   Edited by John Loughran

   A book for anyone who recognizes that teachers, their teaching practice, knowledge and skill should be a focal point of research efforts. The contributions to this volume are internationally authored by leading academics. A range of innovative research methodologies are represented and explained....

   Published March 30th 1999 by Routledge
7. Teaching about Teaching

   Purpose, Passion and Pedagogy in Teacher Education

   By Tom Russell

   Edited by John Loughran

   Considers teacher education as an important aspects of the teaching profession and demonstrates why it is so important for higher education institutions to value their teacher educators' professional knowledge. The book demonstrates how teaching about teaching knowledge pedagogy is vital to the...

   Published March 10th 1997 by Routledge
8. Opening The Classroom Door

   Teacher, Researcher, Learner

   By John Loughran, Jeffrey Northfield

   This account tracks the return to teaching of John Loughran, a teacher educator and educational researcher. After years of educating student teachers, he went back into the classroom for a year to practice what he himself had been teaching, but was often met with difficult pupil behaviour and...

   Published November 5th 1996 by Routledge
9. Developing Reflective Practice

   Learning About Teaching And Learning Through Modelling

   By J. John Loughran

   This text presents a research study into the development of reflective practitioners in a pre-service teacher education programme. The teacher educator in the study modelled his own reflections on practice in the hope that it would help students to apply reflection to their own teaching.; The...

   Published January 30th 1996 by Routledge