Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL

<p>In this book Julian Edge explores the construct of reflexivity in teacher education differentiating it from while locating it in reflective practice. </p><p>Reflexivity is the key concept underpinning a view of teacher education that binds together the orientations of action research and personal development in a way that establishes common ground common purpose and common experience between teachers and teacher educators. </p><p>Augmenting the field in important ways <em>The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL:</em></p><ul> <p> </p> <li>develops the concept of praxis as it resolves the usual theory/practice dichotomy of teacher education</li> <li>introduces a framework (Copying Applying Theorising Reflecting Acting) that allows present and prospective teacher educators to become reflexive individuals</li> <li>uses a narrative autobiographical voice that explicates the concepts involved while also offering practical methodological procedures for teacher education.</li> </ul><p>Written with clarity and style scholarly yet personal dealing with reflexivity in an accessible yet non-trivial way this book – a first in the field distinctive in terms of <em>what</em> the story is and <em>how</em> it is told – is a gift to the profession of TESOL teacher education.</p>