Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions As Habits of Mind : Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned

Dottin, Erskine S. (EDT); Miller, Lynne D. (EDT); O'brien, George E. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 076186086X / ISBN 13: 9780761860860

Published by University Press of America, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions As Habits of Mind : Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076186086X
• ISBN 13: 9780761860860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college’s conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence.

About the Author

Erskine S. Dottin is a faculty member in the area of social foundations of education in the College of Education at Florida International University. He has written on the subject of dispositions in Teacher Dispositions: Building a Teacher Education Framework of Moral Standards, in Dispositions as Habits of Mind: Making Professional Conduct More Intelligent, and in the international journal Teaching and Teacher Education.

Lynne D. Miller is a faculty member in the area of reading education in the College of Education at Florida International University. She is co-author of Teaching as Enhancing Human Effectiveness, and has published in a variety of publications in reading education journals.

George E. O’Brien is a faculty member in the area of science education in the College of Education at Florida International University. He is a review board member of the Journal of Science Teacher Education and Electronic Journal of Science Education, and has reviewed papers for many professional publications and conferences including: American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA).