This essential and aspirational text is aimed at all beginning teachers whatever your training route, age phase and setting. It explicitly adopts and builds on a new metaphor for teachers' professional learning as interplay between the body of public knowledge and the practical wisdom of teachers within a particular school setting. It also accepts that 'telling' you how to teach is ineffective; you need to 'become a teacher' because it involves identity and practice. Inquiry-based critical...

This book provides a one-stop research-informed professional learning guide for teacher educators to support their work-based development of values, pedagogy and scholarship.Drawing on international research and professional development initiatives, it provides a scholarly but action-orientated text. This practical guide supports the professional learning and career development of teacher educators, showing how to learn in and through the workplace. Key areas of focus include pedag...

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings.Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settingsProvides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness and uniqueness to critical scrutinyHistoricize...