Practice based research and critical pedagogy: rethinking teacher education for vocational educators
This paper considers the unique features and contexts of vocational teaching and how these influence and shape vocational teacher education. A study of the use of videoing as a learning and practice based strategy is presented as a prompt to rethinking the roles of the vocational educator. A conceptualisation of the work of the vocational educator which reframes the role and counters a view of vocational education as a transmission of skills within a fixed curriculum is considered. An investigation into the use of video in a teacher education course is described to demonstrate the tensions bet ... Show more
Authors: Anderson, Helen; Maurice-Takerei, Lisa
Published: Melbourne, Victoria, AVETRA, 2012
Resource type: Conference paper
Physical description: 17 p.
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