By B. Kumaravadivelu
The sphere of second/foreign language instructor schooling is asking out for a coherent and finished framework for instructor coaching in those occasions of increasing monetary, cultural, and academic globalization. Responding to this name, this e-book introduces a state of the art version for constructing potential and training lecturers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and transformative academics. The version comprises 5 modules: figuring out, studying, spotting, Doing, and Seeing (KARDS). Its target is to assist academics understand:
-how to construct a plausible specialist, own and procedural knowledge-base,
-how to research learner wishes, motivation and autonomy,
-how to acknowledge their very own identities, ideals and values,
-how to do educating, theorizing and dialogizing, and
-how to work out their very own instructing acts from learner, instructor, and observer perspectives.
Providing a scaffold for development a holistic figuring out of what occurs within the language lecture room, this version ultimately permits lecturers to theorize what they perform and perform what they theorize. With its robust scholarly starting place and its helping reflective projects and exploratory tasks, this ebook is immensely worthy for college students, working towards academics, instructor educators, and academic researchers who're drawn to exploring the complexity of language instructor schooling.
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And as such, it can come only out of direct participation in classroom processes and events. As Jean Clandinin (1992) points out, teachers construct and reconstruct their personal knowledge as they live out their stories and retell and relive them through a continual process of self-reflection. Ultimately, it is this personal knowledge that guides them in the practice of everyday teaching. And yet, personal knowledge is rather idiosyncratic in nature, as it varies from teacher to teacher, from context to context.
The teacher knows the social structure of the school and what it requires, of teacher and student, for survival and for success; she knows the community of which the school is a part, and has a sense of what it will and will not accept. Personal knowledge is thus acutely responsive to the particularities, of local social, cultural, and educational factors that determine learning and teaching in a specific context. And as such, it can come only out of direct participation in classroom processes and events.
The plethora of labels and definitions one finds in the literature is a clear indi cation of the richness of the knowledge base that is now available for analysis and interpretation. But, for the purposes of teacher preparation, I believe we should #r 5f ? 24 Language Teacher Education for a Global Society focus on a set of manageable, and yet meaningful, types of knowledge. Therefore, I consolidate various insights gleaned from the literature, and draw a simple frame of reference consisting of (a)_professional knowledge; (b) procedural knowledge; and (c) personal knowledge.