Language Teachers and Teaching: Global Perspectives, Local Initiatives (Routledge Research in Education)

ISBN-10: 0415636272

ISBN-13: 9780415636278

Edition: 1

Publication date: September 26, 2013

Hardcover: 378 pages
Book Description
This volume gathers contributions from a range of global experts in teacher education to address the topic of language teacher education. It shows how teacher education involves the agency of teachers, which forms part of their identity, and which they take on when integrating into the teaching community of practice. In addition, the volume explores the teachers’ situated practice–the dynamic negotiation of classroom situations, socialization into the professional teaching culture, and “on the ground experimentation” with pedagogical skills/techniques.