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Niels Brouwer
ILS Graduate School of Education, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands "Globalizing Teacher Learning" Friday, 20 April 2007 12:00 p.m. Teacher Education Building, room 220 Sponsored by: The Center for European Studies The Global Studies Program and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction Niels Brouwer is a translator, language teacher and educational psychologist with degrees from the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. His dissertation research was a four-year longitudinal study of teacher competence acquisition, in which mixed methods were used to trace relationships between features of preservice teacher education programs and outcomes observed in graduates’ beginning teaching.
The English-language article about this research, co-authored with Fred Korthagen, appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of the American Educational Research Journal and won AERA Division K’s Exemplary Research Award in 2006. Dr Brouwer was involved in national auditing and innovation projects in Dutch teacher education and is currently working on the instructional framing of digital video in preservice teacher education and professional development. In his brown-bag lecture, Brouwer will give a brief overview of developments in Dutch teacher education, specifically those involving digital video uses. Then, he will focus on his own video work, which is currently situated in the context of reciprocal peer coaching by experienced teachers. This will be illustrated with video fragments. Also, first results will be presented of an international literature review of empirical studies into what and how teachers learn when using digital video. On the basis of these findings, the Visual Teacher Learning Model was developed. |