Adapting to the ILE Practicum: New Grammar for Changing Times in Initial Teacher Education

Abstract

The global emergence of Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs) has disrupted the conventional grammar of schooling prompting more collaborative and flexible teaching and learning arrangements. While the emergence of a new grammar and its complexity for experienced teachers is acknowledged, the ramifications for initial teacher education (ITE) are under-researched. With practicum at the heart of ITE it is vital that teacher educators become conversant with the grammar of an ILE practicum so they can support student teachers to thrive in these environments.

A Relational Approach to Learning Environments: Learning from Pacific Wisdom

“…In ILE literature, culture tends to be located at the institutional level. For example, Davies et al (2013) and others (Gislason, 2010;Nelson et al, 2021) refer to educational culture but without demonstrating clearly from where that culture derives. Learners seem free to reinvent relationships with knowledge and teachers at the classroom level, but wider relational innovations that articulate with potential cultural plurality are not represented.…”