1st Edition
Glimpses into Primary School Teacher Education in South Africa
Introduction
Chapter 1: How we teach is what we teach
Catherine Snow
Chapter 2: Mentor teachers matter in the ecosystem of the school practicum
Refilwe Ntsoane, Gadija Petker, and Elizabeth Henning
Chapter 3: Disparate understandings of the nature, purpose, and practices of reflection in teacher education
Maureen Robinson and Nicoleen Rousseau
Chapter 4: Lessons from large-scale reading studies for initial and continuous teacher development
Brahm Fleisch, Janeli Kotzé, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, and Stephen Taylor
Chapter 5: Executive functions in the South African early grade learner
Caroline Fitzpatrick, Andrew Ribner, and Lara Ragpot
Chapter 6: A school-university partnership for teacher education in Soweto, Johannesburg
Sarah Gravett and Nadine Petersen
Chapter 7: How a rural school was developed to become a practice learning site for pre-service teachers
Lindiwe Jiyane and Coert Loock
Chapter 8: Teacher educators of numeracy: ‘Signifying’ standards of pedagogy
Makie Kortjass, Ramasego Mphahlele, Hayley van der Haar, Lyn Webb, Corin Mathews, and Elizabeth Henning
Chapter 9: Theory-based early numeracy programme adapted to learners’ pre-knowledge: The ‘Meerkat Maths’ programme
Eurika Jansen van Vuuren, Moritz Herzog, and Annemarie Fritz
Chapter 10: Student teachers’ mathematical knowledge gains through a problem-solving instructional approach
Kathleen Fonseca
Chapter 11: Film as teacher education genre: Developing student agency in the production of #Taximaths
Lara Ragpot
Chapter 12: Where schools and universities (can) meet in work-integrated teacher learning
Carisma Nel and Sarita Ramsaroop
Chapter 13: Border-crossings of indigenous knowledge in science teacher education
Josef de Beer and Washington Dudu
Conclusion
Biography
Sarah Gravett is a Professor of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Elizabeth Henning is a Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and Editor of the South African Journal of Childhood Education.
