Nurturing Professional Judgement
Ben Knight author Ian Menter editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:20th Oct '23
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In-the-moment dilemmas and situational awareness are central to teachers' work, but these concepts may not always find their way into teacher education - as they often get pushed aside in favour of curriculum coverage and compliance agendas.
This book challenges a technicist and mechanistic view of teaching and learning to examine how teacher educators might best prepare soon-to-be teachers to make sound professional judgements in their classroom practice. It discusses evidence in the literature that teaching does not directly 'produce' learning and that nurturing learning is a complex business which relies on both 'art and science'. Current policies and compliancy agendas influencing the content of ITE programmes are analysed, and the text provides practical suggestions for how to nurture professional judgement in trainee teachers through HE provision and school-based mentoring.
It describes the dynamism of those who teach in classrooms and reminds teacher educators of the value and necessity of managing structure and improvisation, protocol and intuition which are at the heart of what it means to be a professional.
A new addition to our Critical Guides for Teacher Educators series.
Nurturing Professional Judgement is an inspiring, thought-provoking, and useful book. It has been inspiring for me, as it has led me to explore ways of inquiring into what underpins my own, and colleagues’ professional judgement.
It is thought-provoking, as it poses questions about how teachers make decisions in classrooms and how judgement can be categorised and made explicit.
It is useful, as it provides answers to the question, ‘How can we nurture professional judgement in new teachers?’...
Professor Joy Jarvis, University of Hertfordshire
Nurturing Professional Judgement focuses on the essence of teacher expertise. In doing so, it affirms the knowledge, understanding and skill of being a teacher, and the pleasure which comes from deploying judgement in action to support learning. The analysis is grounded in authentic teacher experience, and builds on decades of similar insights by teachers, teacher educators and researchers.
Today, it constitutes a challenge to the reductive, authoritarian and disrespectful policies which have characterised recent approaches to teacher education in England. The book should be read as an affirmation of teacher expertise and as a contribution to a more enlightened future.
Andrew Pollard, Emeritus Professor, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society
ISBN: 9781915080684
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 160g
88 pages