- Title
- Thinking dispositions as a resource for resilience in the gritty reality of learning to teach
- Creator
- McGraw, Amanda; McDonough, Sharon
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169899
- Identifier
- vital:14087
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-019-00345-z
- Identifier
- ISBN:0311-6999
- Abstract
- While there is agreement that dispositions and resilience enable teachers to negotiate the complexities of teaching, how we support pre-service teachers (PSTs) to activate and understand the nature of dispositions and resilience is less clear. This narrative inquiry, conducted at a regional university in Australia, examines ways thinking dispositions act as personal resources to enable PSTs to develop resilience and negotiate the reality of teaching. In this paper, we examine a teaching and learning experience in an initial teacher education program where PSTs engage with complexities associated with planning, teaching and assessment. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, we construct and examine PSTs’ narratives and identify the foundational influence of people-centred thinking. We also identify the central role of reflective and strategic thinking in enabling resilience. Finally, we argue that school/university partnership initiatives in teacher education provide opportunities to focus on dispositions associated with resilience.
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Relation
- Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 46, no. 4 (2019), p. 589-605
- Rights
- Copyright © 2019, The Australian Association for Research in Education, Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 13 Education; Dispositions; Initial teacher education; Resilience; Vignettes
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