1st Edition
Relational Expertise of Teacher Educators Theory and Practice
1. Chapter One Introduction
2. Chapter Two Teacher Educator as expert colleague
3. Chapter Three Being expert: relational expertise
4. Chapter Four Using theory in practice: teaching someone else to teach
5. Chapter Five Practical theorising with beginning teachers
6. Chapter Six Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index
Biography
Lorna Shires has been a schoolteacher, head teacher, and led a university programme of initial teacher education. She has many years’ experience of teaching trainees in school and at university at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and working with teacher educators in both types of setting.
Ian Menter is former President of BERA, 2013-2015. At Oxford University Department of Education he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Prior to that he was Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow and held posts at the University of the West of Scotland, London Metropolitan University, University of the West of England and the University of Gloucestershire. Ian was President of the Scottish Educational Research Association from 2005–07 and chaired the Research and Development Committee of the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) from 2008-11. He is a Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University and Ulster University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. Since 2018 he has been a Senior Research Associate at Kazan Federal University, Russia.
