LANGUAGE-TEACHER EDUCATORS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ACADEMIC SPACE
LANGUAGE-TEACHER EDUCATORS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ACADEMIC SPACE

Author(s): Agnieszka Szplit
Subject(s): Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: teacher educators; professional development; learning space
Summary/Abstract: Great focus on experience and the role of previous experiences in a teacher’s informal-learning process can be seen in contemporary pedagogical literature. The way teachers define their role and create their teaching style depends largely on real-life events and the people with whom they have had contact. This chapter presents the results of qualitative research with the aim of exploring the university as a learning space for educators of teachers. The research was conducted in the form of interviews among fourteen Polish academic teachers educating foreign-language teachers, and reveals three spaces within university life: space for actions, for cultural practice and for relations with others.

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