Knowledge: Keywords in Teacher Education

Key to teacher education is the knowledge base of the teacher educator, and the ways in which knowledge is conceptualised. This book explores how ideas about knowledge are used in teacher education to critically examine what knowledges are valued across research, policy and practice. The authors explore international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of knowledge (and what counts as knowledge) and how these perspectives on knowledge translate into teacher education, with a final chapter dedicated to exploring consequences for practice.

Steven Puttick is Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oxford, UK, an editor of Geography and is Chair of the Geography Education Research Collective / UK IGU-CGE.

Victoria Elliott is Associate Professor of English and Literacy Education and Deputy Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.

Jenni Ingram is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Oxford, UK, and is editor of Research in Mathematics Education.

Viv Ellis is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research at University College London and FUNDEP Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education in the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.