Overview
- Underscores the strengths of problem-based learning pedagogy for fulfilling the goals of teacher education
- Outlines the roles of the stakeholders in a problem based learning teacher education cohort
- Offers the perspectives of experienced teacher educators applying problem-based learning in practice
- Identifies the challenges of implementing a problem-based learning approach in teacher education
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This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of problem-based learning (PBL) in teacher education. Featuring the perspectives of experienced teacher educators, it details the strengths of problem-based learning pedagogy as well as identifies continuing challenges and future possibilities.
The book explains the goals, content, processes and strategies of a successful and longstanding problem-based learning teacher education program at the University of British Columbia. It features contributions from tutors, faculty, school administrators, faculty advisors, school advisors, librarians and pre-service teachers who share their perspectives about problem-based learning as a robust and exciting approach for teaching and learning.
Overall, the contributors to the book discuss the history of the program, its implementation and future directions. In the process, readers discover the ways that problem-based learning has succeeded in preparing educators to teach diverse learners and acquire the professional dispositions necessary for teaching in today’s multilingual/multicultural classrooms.
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Keywords
- Academic librarianship
- Case based learning
- English Language Learners
- English as an additional language
- English as second language
- PBL
- critical thinking
- elementary teacher preparation
- evidence based response
- information literacy
- problem based learning
- professional inquiry
- subject area resource instructors
- teacher candidates
- teacher education
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Dispositions for Inquiry
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Collaborations: Working Together
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Fostering Inquiry and Active Learning
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Reflections
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Problem-Based Learning in Teacher Education
Editors: Margot Filipenko, Jo-Anne Naslund
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02003-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02002-0Published: 22 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79131-9Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02003-7Published: 15 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction, Language Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education