Innovative Education and Learning Practices

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• OWAIN FRANCIS PEDGLEY

Abstract The first years of teaching can be demanding, as the novice works to gain familiarity with many aspects of professional work. Often, what they have been prepared to do in teacher education programs is not aligned with what is expected at them in schools. As a consequence, many teachers leave the profession or…

This study investigates student teachers’ active learning experiences in teacher education (TE) in Finnish and Turkish contexts and attempts to determine how active learning methods’ impact student teachers’ professional competences. Student teachers (N = 728) assessed their active learning experiences and the profess…

• FİSUN BOZKURT OURİLA

The aim of this study is to reveal how well online communities of practice (oCoPs) help teachers share explicit knowledge and bring their tacit knowledge to the surface. An Internet based oCoP platform called "The Professional Development Circle" (The PDC) was developed for this study. The study was conducted in two p…

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share the experience of Universiti Sains Malaysia in promoting the sustainable development agenda through its leadership role in the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Penang using an “inside‐out approach”. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes the institutional struc…

• HAMOON KHELGHAT DOOST

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This study explores student teachers’ development of professional identity in two teacher education programmes in Sweden and Denmark. Interviews were conducted with ten students in a comparative case study. Data were analysed by employing conceptual approaches of hermeneutic phenomenology and identity trajectories. Th…

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The present study aims to investigate Turkish kindergarten teachers' beliefs toward learning and teaching and their current instructional practices in kindergarten classrooms. To this end, teacher interviews and classroom observations were conducted with 28 kindergarten teachers. The interview results showed that teac…

• FİLİZ ELMALI

The concept of professional agency has recently been predominating in the field of teacher education. Despite this considerable attention given to exploring professional agency embedded in different contexts, there is still scarcity in research on teacher trainees’ agentic roles. To this end, this study focuses on exp…

• ASUMAN AŞIK
• BURÇAK YILMAZ YAKIŞIK
• FATIMA NUR FİŞNE
• GONCA EKŞİ

One of the biggest challenges that teachers face is the mixed-level classes, where students have different abilities, backgrounds and interests. All classes can be defined as ‘mixed’ since no student is the same as the other and this makes it difficult for teachers to meet each student's needs. The purpose of this stu…

• MERVE BEKİRYAZICI