全球化视野下教师教育的叙事探究——专访加拿大迈克尔·康纳利教授

Teacher Education in the Context of Globalization:A Narrative Perspective——An Interview with Dr.Michael Connelly,University of Toronto

迈克尔·康纳利教授从叙事的视角研究教师教育.他区分了“教师知识”和“教师所需的知识”的概念,探索教师教育与教师发展在全球化和本土教育文化传统互动中的困境和机遇,阐述教师教育者在充分理解不同背景的基础上,从“拿来主义”到许世静教授提出的“互惠学习”的话语转换.通过对北美教育改革的分析,他强调了教师在教育改革中的中心地位.他用叙事的观点和教育生态系统的整体性概念来看待教师教育,并对教师教育和教师发展提供了有益的建议.

Michael Connelly researches teacher education from the perspective of narrative inquiry.He distinguishes'teacher knowledge'and'knowledge for teachers'.He positions teacher education in the context and intersection of globalization and local educational and cultural traditions.By reviewing the history of teacher education reforms in North America,he emphasizes the centrality of teachers in education reform.He explicates teacher education as a life-long career and learning in a narrative perspective.He argues that the teacher educators need to change the discourse from directly‘bring in'to Shijing Xu's‘reciprocal learning'on the basis of fully understanding the different settings.He proposes a holistic view of the educational ecosystem and delineates how to develop teacher education through a narrative perspective with the metaphor of the educational ecosystem.By considering teacher education in the landscape of this educational ecosystem and narrative perspective,he gives some suggestions regarding teacher education and development.