Teacher educators and the production of bricoleurs
An ethnographic study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12213686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Hatton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-258 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/095183997237322 |
| OpenAlex | W2067909766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This paper reports and discusses data from an ethnographic study of teacher educators (Hatton, 1990) in which a metaphor for teachers' work as bricolage (Hatton, 1988, 1989) generated a hypothesis about teacher education as a conservative determinant of teachers' work. The hypothesis was tested during two years of ethnographic fieldwork involving chiefly participant observation and intensive interviewing with nine teacher educators. The paper describes the theory testing approach and presents an explanation of why teachers' work as bricolage is in need of revision. Four significant revisions needed to improve the theoretical adequacy of the explanation are subsequently presented. The paper concludes with an appeal for further qualitative research in teacher education
Appeal · Bricolage · Ethnography · Interview · Mathematics education · Metaphor · Participant observation · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Teacher education · Work (physics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2015 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |