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01 SES 10 A, Symposium: Research on Practices of Teacher Induction, Part 1
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The need to support new teachers is a global challenge. However, there seems to be various understandings of what teacher induction is about. In this symposium, various ways of organizing support in the induction phase are studied as ‘practices of induction’ in a European and a global perspective. Our research question is: how are the practices of teacher induction constituted in European countries? In this symposium, this question is examined through theoretical and empirical studies. The theoretical background is based on the work of Professor Stephen Kemmis and his colleagues in Charles Sturt University, Australia. Kemmis is one of the key scholars in developing a theory of practice, along with an American sociologist Theodore Schatzki (2002; 2005; 2010). Within the theory of ‘practice architectures’, developed by Kemmis and his research group, we may understand teacher induction as practices which are constituted within more comprehensive metapractices. The practices are constituted through ‘practice architectures’ (Kemmis, Edwards-Groves, Wilkinson & Hardy 2012; Kemmis & Grootenboer 2008) in which (1.) activities are distributed among participants and in activity systems or networks (in physical space-time), (2.) knowledge is distributed among participants and in different discourses (in semantic space), and (3.) participants and participation are distributed in particular kinds of relationships to one another (and to other objects) in social space. All educational practices ‘hang together’ (1.) through practical arrangements, (2.) through discourses (3.) and through relations between individuals, groups and institutions. In this symposium, teacher induction is studied as practices. There are given practices of teacher induction in every country which are formed through certain ways of (1.) ‘doing’ concrete things in the physical space-time; through arrangements, activities and actions. The practices are also constituted through (2.) ‘sayings’; conceptualizing what is done and what should be done so that the participants of the discourse can understand each other; e.g. “mentoring”, “tutoring”, “internship”, “coaching”, “peer support” etc. All this takes place in a social setting where the people and organisations involved in education (3.) relate to each other. In induction phase, the relationships between teacher education, school administration and trade union are constituted in particular ways in every country. We may also study practices of teacher induction as ‘ecologies of practices’. Within this framework, we study practices of teacher induction by analogy with ecosystems, following principles which are derived from ecology.
This symposium consists of two sessions. The first session is contributed by researchers from Charles Sturt University in Australia and participants of NQT-COME (Supporting Newly Qualified Teachers through Collaborative Mentoring) from Northern Europe. The first presentation will introduce the practice theory developed by Stephen Kemmis and his colleagues, applied to teacher induction. The following presentations will empirically study the practices of teacher induction from different perspectives in the European countries. The second paper will introduce practices of mentoring in Estonia, Finland and Norway. The third presentation will focus on practices of mentor training in Finland.
Programme by Networks, ECER 2021
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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