Search results for author:"Anthony Clarke"
Total records matched: 14 Search took: 0.091 secs
-
Anthony Clarke
University of British Columbia
-
The recent landscape of teacher education: critical points and possible conjectures
Anthony Clarke
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 17, No. 5 pp. 599–611
Some educators claim that teacher education borrows so heavily from other disciplines that it does not constitute a field of study in its own right. I argue to the contrary, suggesting that the chronic discrepancy between institutional regard for...
Language: English
-
Professional development in practicum settings: Reflective practice under scrutiny
Anthony Clarke
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 11, No. 3 pp. 243–261
This study explored the applicability of Donald Schön's notion of reflective practice for student teachers in practicum settings. The research was guided by three questions: What do student teachers reflect upon?, What precipitates reflection?, and...
Language: English
-
The nature and substance of cooperating teacher reflection
Anthony Clarke
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 22, No. 7 pp. 910–921
The learning opportunties for student-teachers in practicum settings has long been acknowledged and studied in considerable depth. However, the learning opportunities for cooperating teachers, while celebrated and extolled as an important reciprocal ...
Language: English
-
Lifting a corner of the research rug: a case for meta-interviews in qualitative studies
Anthony Clarke; Alistair Robertson
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 17, No. 7 pp. 773–782
The degree to which knowledge can be abstracted from the situations in which it is constructed has received criticism in recent years. There is growing awareness of the importance of the interrelationship between the content of what is said and the...
Language: English
-
The practicum experiences of English Language Major student teachers during a period of profound curriculum reform in China
Fang Wang; Anthony Clarke
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 36, No. 1 (May 2014) pp. 108–116
This paper provides an analysis of the issues faced by Chinese student teachers and, by extension, their supervisors, when curriculum reform challenges existing practices in schools and universities. The paper draws on the experiences of 10 English...
Language: English
-
Web-Supported Communities for Teacher Professional Development: Five Cautions
Hedieh Najafi; Anthony Clarke
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 2008) pp. 244–263
This interpretive case study explores an attempt to add an online component-the On-line Literacy Project-to a successful face-to-face professional development community. Participants were six members of the Literacy Project, which was carried out in ...
Topics: Virtual Environments, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies, Mentoring, Communication, Collaboration, Computers, Community, Interaction, Internet, Professional Development, Educational Technology
-
Complexity science and student teacher supervision
Anthony Clarke; Steve Collins
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2007) pp. 160–172
To what extent might the practicum be regarded as a complex phenomenon? After introducing complexity science and its potential to illuminate educational practice, five characteristics are explored within the context of teacher education. Vignettes...
Language: English
-
Identifying Enabling Conditions for Sustainable Online Teacher Professional Development Communities
Hedieh Najafi; Anthony Clarke
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2145–2148
This paper illustrates findings of an interpretive case-study that explored the development of e-VSB Literacy, a web-supported professional community, as the online component of Vancouver School Board Early Literacy Project (VSB Literacy Project), a ...
-
Activity frames and complexity thinking: Honoring both public and personal agendas in an emergent curriculum
Steve Collins; Anthony Clarke
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 24, No. 4 (May 2008) pp. 1003–1014
This article which is largely conceptual in nature, explores the possibilities provided by embracing complexity thinking that are attentive to, but not confined by, externally imposed curriculum mandates while simultaneously honoring the interests...
Language: English
-
What the teaching perspectives of cooperating teachers tell us about their advisory practices
Anthony Clarke; Sandra Jarvis-Selinger
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2005) pp. 65–78
This study drew upon the recently developed Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) to compare and contrast the teaching perspectives of cooperating teachers against a range of demographic data specific to cooperating teachers. The outcomes indicate,...
Language: English
-
The Great God of the Future: The Views of Current and Future English Teachers on the Place of IT in Literacy
Andrew Goodwyn; Anthony Adams; Stephen Clarke
English in Education Vol. 31, No. 2 (1997) pp. 54–62
Contends that most student teachers of English in Great Britain now welcome information technology (IT) in English, seeing it as central to the literacy of all pupils. Finds some current English teachers remain ambivalent about IT, but the general...
-
Technophobia and Personality Subtypes in a Sample of South African University Students
L M. Anthony; M C. Clarke; S J. Anderson
Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 16, No. 1 (2000) pp. 31–44
This study examined levels of techophobia, described as negative psychological reactions toward technology, in a sample of South African university students. Describes use of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory and reports results that show techophobia...
-
Anhedonia Predicts Poorer Recovery among Youth with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment-Resistant Depression
Dana L. McMakin; Thomas M. Olino; Giovanna Porta; Laura J. Dietz; Graham Emslie; Gregory Clarke; Karen Dineen Wagner; Joan R. Asarnow; Neal D. Ryan; Boris Birmaher; Wael Shamseddeen; Taryn Mayes; Betsy Kennard; Anthony Spirito; Martin Keller; Frances L. Lynch; John F. Dickerson; David A. Brent
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 51, No. 4 (April 2012) pp. 404–411
Objective: To identify symptom dimensions of depression that predict recovery among selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment-resistant adolescents undergoing second-step treatment. Method: The Treatment of Resistant Depression in...