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Framing Teacher Education: Participation Frameworks As Resources For Teacher Learning, Martin Connell
Framing Teacher Education: Participation Frameworks As Resources For Teacher Learning, Martin Connell
Martin T. Connell, S.J.
This article examines the role modes of participation play in pre-service teachers' learning - what it means to teach and to learn, and what it means to be a teacher and a student. In particular, it examines how a teacher educator's taking up some social positions and refusing to take up others serves to cultivate active engagement and inquiry about teaching, learning, and schooling among the pre-service teachers by providing them with opportunities to reinterpret the figured world of school.
Teaching And Learning As Wayfaring, Martin Connell Sj
Teaching And Learning As Wayfaring, Martin Connell Sj
Martin T. Connell, S.J.
The article discusses how the wayfaring voyage made by St. Brendan to the Promised Land of the Saints contrasts sharply with following the linear, factory-model curriculum common in schools in the U.S. When based on a linear, technical model, it says that a school is perceived as an activity that principally entails both teachers and students following a map through a curriculum with few chances for wayfaring. Moreover, St. Brendan is considered as the patron saint of teachers who consider inquiry as a tool to promote learning and as a way of being.