1st Edition
Future-Proofing Teacher Education Voices from South Africa and Beyond
Part 1: Current and future relevance of teacher education
1: A framework for initial teacher education in an uncertain and fast-changing world
Rika Kroon and Sarah Gravett
2: Using concept mapping to ensure adaptable and responsive curriculum development and learning designs
David M. Kennedy and Carmel McNaught
3: Teacher education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution – teachers, technologies, and transformation
Kerry J. Kennedy
4: Science teacher education for current and future relevance
Umesh Ramnarain, Mafor Penn, Daniel Capps, and Ying-Shao Hsu
Part 2: Relevance in teacher education and the science of learning
5: Lesson design in pre-service teacher education: a learning-centred approach
Sarah Gravett, Dean van der Merwe, and René Levinge-Lang
6: The science of reading in a foundation phase teacher’s toolkit: implications for teaching reading in an African language
Elizabeth Henning and Fikile Simelane
Part 3: Teacher development for a fast-changing world
7: Creating a context conducive to creative learning in a coding club: student teachers’ experiences
Linford Molaodi, Sarah Gravett, and Jacqueline Batchelor
8: Looking at teacher professional development through a fourth-generation Cultural-Historical Activity Theory lens: the value of “Change Laboratories”
Josef de Beer
9: Preparing pre-service teachers to use guided play as a core pedagogy in Grade R
Lerato Ndabezitha and Sarah Gravett
10: The effectiveness of technology-supported teacher professional learning communities in emergency settings
Yomna El-Serafy, Taskeen Adam, and Björn Hassler
11: Preparing pre-service teachers to teach with robotics
Kenneth Baloyi and Jacqueline Batchelor
Part 4: Learning for teacher education during and from the COVID-19 pandemic
12: Reimagining teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of South Africa and Hong Kong
Nadine Petersen and Gary Harfitt
13: COVID-19 - lessons learnt: a teacher education leadership perspective
Sarita Ramsaroop, Jacqueline Batchelor, and Nadine Petersen
Afterword
Biography
Sarah Gravett is Professor of Teacher Education and Development and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nadine Petersen is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
