1st Edition

The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL Roots and Wings

By Julian Edge Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

In this book Julian Edge explores the construct of reflexivity in teacher education, differentiating it from, while locating it in, reflective practice. Reflexivity is the key concept underpinning a view of teacher education that binds together the orientations of action research and personal development in a way that establishes common ground, common purpose, and common experience between... Read more

1. Of metaphors and myths, voices and vocabularies, aims and addressees

2. In praise of reflective practice

3. In search of reflexivity

4. Copying and becoming methodological

5. Applying theory and becoming technical

6. Theorizing practice and becoming theoretical

7. Reflecting and becoming intellectual

8. Acting and becoming pragmatic

9. Shadows

10. So what?

Biography

Julian Edge is Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL), University of Manchester, UK.