Teaching is an uncertain, dilemma ridden endeavour. Attending to the significance of these characteristics of teaching for teachers involves taking their meanings and meaning construction seriously. This paper does this, focusing on one teacher’s meaning making in relation to her expectations, tolerance of uncertainty, changing roles and shifting identities/images of teaching. In doing so it calls attention to how the professional development of teachers can be based on the meanings they themselves develop and examine, and how cognitive and affective sense-making reveal personal orientations toward uncertainty, influence teaching practice and expectations for the future
In this article we examine “meaning ” and “action ” within the “good ” work of teaching and learn-in...
This thesis analyses a complex process of meaning making. It centres upon the meaning making of a gr...
Faced with a day-to-day job that is filled with uncertainty, teachers have to make countless decisio...
Teaching is an uncertain, dilemma ridden endeavour. Attending to the significance of these character...
Teacher education courses are often criticised as having little relevance or application for the rea...
Teaching is evidently and inevitably uncertain. No teacher can be sure how a lesson will go or what ...
Making sense of what it means to teach is an increasingly challenging task as teachers’ work becomes...
Making sense of what it means to teach is an increasingly challenging task as teachers’ work becomes...
The notion of personal pedagogies highlights the enduring centrality to educational outcomes of teac...
The extent to which teachers should make use of theoretical and expert knowledge as opposed to tacit...
In this article, a number of scientific schools of thought and research results are reviewed and fou...
This chapter draws upon a larger study on (beginning) teachers and on their experiences of being a t...
This essay challenges the current emphasis on certainty, measurement and control in the field of edu...
In order to identify specific, shared sources of meaning and mechanisms with which individuals attem...
Different expectations are placed towards teacher in his professional role. Pupils, their parents, s...
In this article we examine “meaning ” and “action ” within the “good ” work of teaching and learn-in...
This thesis analyses a complex process of meaning making. It centres upon the meaning making of a gr...
Faced with a day-to-day job that is filled with uncertainty, teachers have to make countless decisio...
Teaching is an uncertain, dilemma ridden endeavour. Attending to the significance of these character...
Teacher education courses are often criticised as having little relevance or application for the rea...
Teaching is evidently and inevitably uncertain. No teacher can be sure how a lesson will go or what ...
Making sense of what it means to teach is an increasingly challenging task as teachers’ work becomes...
Making sense of what it means to teach is an increasingly challenging task as teachers’ work becomes...
The notion of personal pedagogies highlights the enduring centrality to educational outcomes of teac...
The extent to which teachers should make use of theoretical and expert knowledge as opposed to tacit...
In this article, a number of scientific schools of thought and research results are reviewed and fou...
This chapter draws upon a larger study on (beginning) teachers and on their experiences of being a t...
This essay challenges the current emphasis on certainty, measurement and control in the field of edu...
In order to identify specific, shared sources of meaning and mechanisms with which individuals attem...
Different expectations are placed towards teacher in his professional role. Pupils, their parents, s...
In this article we examine “meaning ” and “action ” within the “good ” work of teaching and learn-in...
This thesis analyses a complex process of meaning making. It centres upon the meaning making of a gr...
Faced with a day-to-day job that is filled with uncertainty, teachers have to make countless decisio...