Conference paper
Certain uncertainty and the importance of teacher meanings
Proceedings of the 2008 Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers Conference, pp.1-11
Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers Conference: New researchers for new times, 2005 (Brisbane, Australia, 28-Oct-2005–29-Oct-2005)
Queensland University of Technology
2005
Abstract
Teaching is an uncertain, dilemma ridden endeavour. Attending to the significance of these characteristics of teaching for teachers involves taking their meanings and meaning construction seriously. This paper does this, focusing on one teacher's meaning making in relation to her expectations, tolerance of uncertainty, changing roles and shifting identities/images of teaching. In doing so it calls attention to how the professional development of teachers can be based on the meanings they themselves develop and examine, and how cognitive and affective sense-making reveal personal orientations toward uncertainty, influence teaching practice and expectations for the future.
Details
- Title
- Certain uncertainty and the importance of teacher meanings
- Authors
- Alison L Black (Author)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2008 Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers Conference, pp.1-11
- Conference details
- Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers Conference: New researchers for new times, 2005 (Brisbane, Australia, 28-Oct-2005–29-Oct-2005)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Date published
- 2005
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2005 The Author. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Licence.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448740002621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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