Being a Teacher : Teaching and Learning in a Global Context

Becoming a Teacher offers essential guidance for all prospective teachers on how to reflect critically on their own practice and that of others. Sharing the stories of educators working across a diverse range of international contexts, the book explores effective teaching and learning and asks how we can build on this best practice in schools. The interactive and scaffolded approach, which includes space in the text for the reader to construct their own narrative, helps to develop an understanding of how personal values influence pedagogical practice. Engaging with these stories and teaching experiences, the reader can begin to create their vision of the teacher they would like to become.

Sharing the stories of educators working in a diverse range of international contexts, Being a Teacher uses personal narratives to explore effective teaching and learning in global settings. Demonstrating how personal values influence pedagogical practice, and asking how practice can be improved, authors reflect on their experiences not just as teachers, but also as learners, to offer essential guidance for all prospective educational professionals.

The book focuses on teacher narratives as a vehicle for consideration of teacher professionalism, and as a way of understanding issues which are important to teachers in different contexts. By sharing and analysing these narratives, the book discusses the increasing complexity of teaching as a profession, and considers the commonality within the narratives. Each chapter includes graphic representations of analysis and encourages its reader to reflect critically on central questions, thereby constructing their own narrative.

provides an in-depth and engaging insight into the education system at a global level, making it an essential read for anyone embarking on a teaching career within the international education market.