Full Description
Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher education, second language motivation and psychology, this empirically-grounded analysis of teacher development in action offers new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of language teachers' conceptual change.
Contents
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Teacher Change Research: A Critical Overview
Theories of Learning and Change in Psychology
Pulling it Together: An Integrated Model of Language Teacher Conceptual Change
The Study of Language Teachers' Conceptual Change: Grounded Theory Ethnography
It's Not What They Know, It's Who They See: Ideal Selves as Central Cognitions in Conceptual Change
Emotional Dissonance: Essential but Insufficient Catalyst for Conceptual Change
When Change Threatens the Teachers' Sense of Self: Emotional Battles in Balancing Ideal, Ought-to and Feared Selves
It's Not as Simple as It Sounds: Teacher Change as a Multifaceted, Situated, Emerging and Dynamic Process
Conclusion: New Metaphors for Researching and Educating for Teacher Change
Epilogue
