Special issue of TEJ: what is to be done with curriculum and educational foundations’ critical knowledges? New qualitative research on conscientizing preservice and in-service teachers

ABSTRACT

In this essay, we provide a brief introductory statement to the special issue of Teaching Education titled What is To Be Done with Curriculum and Educational Foundations’ Critical Knowledges? New Qualitative Research on Conscientizing Preservice and In-Service Teachers. In our introductory statement, we describe the specific aim and broad purposes of the special issue and characterize its contents. Our specific aim with the special issue is to advance the conscientization of preservice and in-service teachers via critical pedagogies and race-based epistemologies. Our broad purposes are to (a) resist the ascendant, whitened, and Eurocentric fascism via our collective pedagogical labor in teacher education and (b) reorient curriculum and educational foundations' critical knowledges toward institutional praxis. We conclude our introductory statement by characterizing the contents of the special issue for teacher educators and teacher education researchers.     

论教师专业发展及特质

教师是从事教学工作的专业人员。为了提高教学质量,必须主动地、持续不断地进行专业发展。本在介绍国内外有关教师专业发展相关研究的基础上,主要阐析教师专业发展的特质,使教师主动提升自己的专业素养,提高人们对教师地位的认识。     

学科教学知识（PCK）研究的发展历程——兼谈对我国教师教育研究的启示

自舒尔曼（Shulman）提出学科教学知识（PCK）后,PCK的研究受到广泛关注。根据研究重心的变迁可以将PCK研究划分为探索、发展和深入三个阶段。加强学科教学知识（PCK）研究有利于我们把握其发展方向,选择恰当研究方法从事本土化研究,利用PCK理论框架更好地完善教师教育研究以及教育教学实践。     

What is to be done with curriculum and educational foundations' critical knowledges? Toward critical and decolonizing education sciences

ABSTRACT

As editors of the special issue in Teaching Education titled What Is To Be Done with Curriculum and Educational Foundations’ Critical Knowledges? New Qualitative Research on Conscientizing Preservice and In-Service Teachers, our purpose with this conceptual essay is twofold. First, we historicize and characterize the critical knowledges deployed in this special issue as a broad array of criticalities. Second, we provide a reading of these criticalities that together we tentatively call critical and decolonizing education sciences. In our discussion and conclusion, we focus on the dual challenges of developing work in critical and decolonizing education sciences: (a) better historicizing academic work and (b) clearly responding to demands of institutional praxis.     

教育生态学视野下的教师专业发展

在当前的教育实践中,教师作为新课程改革的最终执行者,其职业状态和生存状态没有引起人们足够的重视。文章从教育生态学的角度来说明教育应该深入分析教师发展问题,为教师专业发展提供更多的机会,从而实现教师的可持续发展,提升教师的生命质量与价值。     

教师学科教学知识演变:内涵、特征及趋势

自舒尔曼提出学科教学知识(PCK)概念伊始,教师学科教学知识的演化已经走过三十余年。审视过去,学科教学知识结构中新元素的融入、学科化的探讨、层级化的审视以及智能化的思虑,促使了教师学科教学知识发展由点到面、由表及里、由浅至深。当前教师学科教学知识演化存在四种发展趋势:教师学科教学知识呈现博约合一的融合状态、教师师学科教学知识关注教育实践的相互嵌合、教师师学科教学知识重视教育情境的内生反思、教师师学科教学知识存在发展革新的时代审视。这些趋势促使了教师师学科教学知识研究国际化、境脉化、多样化的发展。今后,教师学科教学知识需要基于数据技术驱动做出变革:使用数据密集型科学范式革新教师的知识结构、在教师原有学科教学知识体系中嵌合数据素养、关注教育实践中数据驱动的教师反思和规律总结,以此促进智能教育时代教师的专业发展。     

西方教师知识与教师专业发展研究述评

在西方教育研究领域,教师知识作为教师认知世界中稳定和基础性的一部分,一直是教师教育与发展的一个核心议题。随着教师知识认识论的变化,其研究内容也随之在演变和扩展:从教师知识分类研究发展到教师实践知识研究。知识观的转向必然会导致教师发展范式的转变,而这些变化对推动我国教师教育研究与发展具有一定的借鉴意义。     

Educational development as a field: are we there yet?

This paper contributes to the critical engagement about educational development and its status as a field. The critique focuses in particular on our knowledge and the nature of our knowledge-building. The paper argues that unless we strengthen our knowledge base we will not emerge as a professional field able to engage rigorously and systematically with the problems of higher education. Drawing on social realist work that builds on the ideas of Basil Bernstein, a framework is offered for conceptualizing knowledge differentiation and the implications of different types of knowledge for knowledge-building. The paper concludes with suggestions on how educational development might strengthen its knowledge-building capacity.     

教育人类学的“成长”隐喻与教师的专业发展

教育人类学自诞生以来,就一直以人类学的概念、原理与方法来研究教育现象。教育人类学的个体成长隐喻,对教师专业发展有重要的启示。教育人类学的震撼隐喻,喻指个体成长中的震撼经历。对教师而言,境遇性就是重要的震撼经历。教育人类学的沉醉隐喻,指的是人在活动中的投入状态。对教师而言,沉醉意味着教师的非理性投入精神。教育人类学的民族隐喻,指的是不同地域的人深受文化的影响。为此,要突出教师发展的文化性。教育人类学自由隐喻认为个体发展是自主的。因此,它突出教师发展的内在超越性。     

Teaching Philosophy of Education: The Value of Questions

The teaching of foundations courses, and in particular philosophy of education, is frequently under siege in teacher education programs across Canada, as these programs struggle to meet other demands on student teachers. This article results from a panel discussion addressing the context of a variety of undergraduate philosophy of education courses across the country, and the principles and practices instructors take in teaching their discipline. The result of the discussion is a strong argument in favour of teaching philosophy of education as an important means of achieving many of the other aims Faculties of Education and teacher education programs have for their teacher education students, in an atmosphere of reflective thought about the profession and its challenges.