Connecting Policy and Practice

Part 1. Teacher Education 1. Learning to be a Teacher: Teacher education and the development of professional identity 2. Teacher Learning and the Theory of Variation 3. Areas of Professional Research: A proposal for organizing the context of teacher education 4. How to Affect the Quality of Teacher Education: A four-year policy driven project implemented at university level 5. Learning from the Conservation of New Teachers Part 2. Teacher Practice 6. Inside Teacher Community: Representations of classroom practice 7. The Contemporary 'Basic Values of School': The emperors' new clothes? 8. Exploring the Landscape of Teachers' Tacitly Implied Ethics 9. Cultural Scaffolding: The arts and crafts 10. What is Actually Happening in Secondary Classrooms? The rhetoric and reality of curriculum reform Part 3. Higher Education 11. Students' Voices at a Portuguese University: Academic motivation and its relationship with academic success 12. Discourse Dissonance in University Policy Concerning Intellectual Property 13. When Angels Dance with Devils: What is sacred and profone in the professoriate? 14. Listening to Students' Voices: Self study of teacher education practice 15. UK Doctoral Degree Assessment Criteria: Towards transparency through exploring teacher thinking Part 4. Teacher Development 16. The Challenge to the Best: Research and the teacher 17. Tertiary Teacher Development: Connecting policy, personal theory and practice 18. Collaboration in Cross National Networks for Teacher Professional Development 19. Dilemmas of Democratic Education 20. When the Best Maps Cannot Guide Us: Exploring and understanding teacher vulnerability Part 5. Research and Theory 21. The Development of Teachers' and Students' Identities through Reflective Practices: Conceptual considerations 22. On a Pedagogy of Research Problems 23. Shared Basic Democratic Values by Means of Education? A deweyan perspective on some democratic illusions and necessities 24. Face to Face: Human dimensions in biographical interviews 25. Teachers Becoming Researchers: Reflections on professional development