Teacher Learning in Changing Contexts - Perspectives from the Learning Sciences

New to the Routledge Advances in Learning Sciences series, this book highlights diverse approaches taken by researchers in the Learning Sciences to support teacher learning. It features international perspectives from world class researchers that exemplify new lenses on the work of teaching, encompassing new objects of learning, methods and tools; new ways of working with researchers and peers; and new efforts to work with the systems in which teachers are embedded.

Together, the chapters in this volume reflect a new frontier of research on teacher learning that leverages diversity in the content, contexts, objects of inquiry, and tools for supporting shifts in instructional practice. Divided into three sections, chapters question:

• What new pedagogies and knowledge do teachers need to facilitate student learning in the 21st century?
• How do learning sciences- tools, strategies, and experiences provide opportunities for t