Improving teacher education practices through self-study / edited by John Loughran and Tom Russell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Can self-study improve teacher education? / Tom Russell -- Pt. I. Understanding teaching in teacher education. 2. Developing an understanding of learning to teach in teacher education / Amanda Berry and John Loughran. 3. A balancing act: self-study in valuing the individual student / Deborah Tidwell. 4. Opposites attract: what I learned about being a classroom teacher by being a teacher educator / Joseph C. Senese. 5. Self-study as a way of teaching and learning: a research collaborative re-analysis of self-study teaching portfolios / Lis Bass, Vicky Anderson-Patton and Jerry Allender -- Pt. II. Studying teacher educators' roles and responsibilities. 6. Guiding new teachers' learning from classroom experience: self-study of the faculty liaison role / Tom Russell. 7. Learning about our teaching from our graduates, learning about our learning with critical friends / Sandy Schuck and Gilda Segal. 8. Framing professional discourse with teachers: Professional Working Theory / Mary C. Dalmau and Hafdis Gudjonsdottir. 9. Can self-study challenge the belief that telling, showing, and guided practice constitute adequate teacher education? / Charles B. Myers -- Pt. III. Fostering social justice in teaching about teaching. 10. The (in)visibility of race in narrative constructions of the self / Enora R. Brown. 11. "Nothing grand": small tales and working for social justice / Morwenna Griffiths. 12. Change, social justice, and re-liability: reflections of a secret (change) agent / Mary Lynn Hamilton -- Pt. IV. Exploring myths in teacher education. 13. Myths about teaching and the university professor: the power of unexamined beliefs / Belinda Y. Louie, Richard W. Stackman and Denise Drevdahl / [et al.]. 14. What gets "mythed" in the student evaluations of their teacher education professors? / Linda May Fitzgerald, Joan E. Farstad and Deborah Deemer. 15. Research as a way of knowing and seeing: advocacy for the other / Jeffrey J. Kuzmic. 16. Understanding self-study of teacher education practices / John Loughran.