Professional journey of expert teacher educators

The novice can learn from the experts, but knowledge and expertise acquired by the experts are tacit in nature and difficult to share. To access this knowledge, the experts need to make their expertise explicit. Research on teacher educators is so sparse and the literature is relatively old. Teacher...

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Main Authors: Hashim, Hashimah, Ahmad, Shamsudin, Ismail, Ismi Arif
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19330/
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Ahmad, Shamsudin
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description The novice can learn from the experts, but knowledge and expertise acquired by the experts are tacit in nature and difficult to share. To access this knowledge, the experts need to make their expertise explicit. Research on teacher educators is so sparse and the literature is relatively old. Teacher educators as researchers tend to study teachers more than teacher educators. This group of professionals is important because the expertise of the teacher educators is one of the contributions towards excellence in teacher education. This study is regarding the professional journey of expert teacher educators which contributes towards the teacher educators’ professional development. The objectives are to explore the main concern of the expert teacher educators in their journey to become experts and to produce theories based on data in the substantive area. The tentative rudimentary framework of this study opts to view how reflection-on-action deepens in the course of a career which also suggests that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice. The informers’ concerns based on reflection-on-action are data to the building blocks of a tentative theory of the experts’ professional journey in this study.
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spelling upm-193302015-05-14T06:26:42Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19330/ Professional journey of expert teacher educators Hashim, Hashimah Ahmad, Shamsudin Ismail, Ismi Arif The novice can learn from the experts, but knowledge and expertise acquired by the experts are tacit in nature and difficult to share. To access this knowledge, the experts need to make their expertise explicit. Research on teacher educators is so sparse and the literature is relatively old. Teacher educators as researchers tend to study teachers more than teacher educators. This group of professionals is important because the expertise of the teacher educators is one of the contributions towards excellence in teacher education. This study is regarding the professional journey of expert teacher educators which contributes towards the teacher educators’ professional development. The objectives are to explore the main concern of the expert teacher educators in their journey to become experts and to produce theories based on data in the substantive area. The tentative rudimentary framework of this study opts to view how reflection-on-action deepens in the course of a career which also suggests that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice. The informers’ concerns based on reflection-on-action are data to the building blocks of a tentative theory of the experts’ professional journey in this study. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19330/1/ID%2019330.pdf Hashim, Hashimah and Ahmad, Shamsudin and Ismail, Ismi Arif (2011) Professional journey of expert teacher educators. In: 10th International Conference of the Academy of HRD (Asia Chapter), 3-6 Dec. 2011, InterContinental, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . Teacher educators Teacher effectiveness Teachers - In-service training
spellingShingle Teacher educators
Teacher effectiveness
Teachers - In-service training
Hashim, Hashimah
Ahmad, Shamsudin
Ismail, Ismi Arif
Professional journey of expert teacher educators
title Professional journey of expert teacher educators
title_full Professional journey of expert teacher educators
title_fullStr Professional journey of expert teacher educators
title_full_unstemmed Professional journey of expert teacher educators
title_short Professional journey of expert teacher educators
title_sort professional journey of expert teacher educators
topic Teacher educators
Teacher effectiveness
Teachers - In-service training
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19330/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19330/1/ID%2019330.pdf