Full Description
This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education.
Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses theory and practice and gives a holistic view of the changing landscape of language teacher education, accounting for the transformative power of educational practices that help teachers think and act in informed, context-specific, and learner-centred ways. It also demonstrates the importance of autonomy in language teacher education contexts, specifically to foster teachers' professional learning, identity, and agency, as well as in assessing and reshaping teacher education programmes.
This book will be particularly useful to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of teaching and teacher education, modern foreign languages, and teaching and learning language research more broadly. Curriculum designers and language teacher education programme directors may also find the volume of use.
Contents
1. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in initial teacher education for autonomy 2. Teacher education for autonomy: An analysis of language teacher education initiatives for learner and teacher autonomy 3. Identity and autonomy development in learning to teach EFL: Making sense of cognitive/emotional dissonance 4. Linking principle and practice in initial language teacher education for learner and teacher autonomy: The case for student teacher case writing 5. Enhancing autonomy through inquiry in practicum settings: Insights from a narrative of practice in primary English teaching 6. Language teacher education as a two-way autonomy development process: Student teachers and teacher educators as learners 7. Developing collaborative teacher autonomy for learning to teach English to young learners 8. Autonomous participation in post-observation feedback discussions: Post-practicum teacher candidates as relative old-timers in an ELT methods course 9. Becoming a learner again: Implications for autonomy teacher education 10. From university to schools: Insights from novice language teachers into teacher autonomy 11. Learning to learn foreign languages: Empowering pre-service EFL teachers 12. The use of a self-reflective instrument for pre-service language teachers in Brazil: Discussions on autonomy, agency, and the use of digital technologies 13. Language teacher education for autonomy: Critical issues and possible pathways
