This is the question I was asked by one of my PGDE students that made me think there are some words we use in Initial Teach Education (ITE) that are not commonly used in other parts of society. The student…
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Are engineers better placed to learn to become physics teachers than physicists?
To be successful in initial teacher education courses all students will need to adapt to the teaching approaches, feedback mechanisms and assessment practices of the discipline of education which are likely very different from those that they are used to…
The emotional impact of nature seen through the lenses of Virtual Reality (VR) and revealed through the power of expressive art
Gabriella Rodolico, Fiona McGregor, Pieter van der Houwen, Paria Goodarzi and Frank Llinas Casas We have recently organised a series of workshops based on the emotional exploration of nature and on the need to raising awareness of sustainability issues through…
What I Learned About My Practice as a Teacher Educator in COVID-19
In the second half of 2020, the teacher education literature was filled with perspectives on how a particular institution or institutions reacted to the imposed move to remote, online teaching. Publications from 2020 refer to ‘emergency remote teaching’ or ‘emergency…