Studies in pre-service and in-service

teacher education
Edited by Bridget Somekh and Niki Davis

Name: Lavinia Nimerschi, 2nd Year MA

Date: 3. 11. 2017e
Time 20 minutes
Editors

Bridget Somekh Niki Davis is a New

Educational Researcher and Zealand computer scientist,
Consultant currently a Distinguished
Bridget was formerly Depute Professor of
Director of the Scottish Council E-Learning at University of
for Research in Education and
Canterbury
Dean of the School of
Education and Professional
Development at the University
of Huddersfield.
GENERAL INFORMATION
First published 1997 by Routledge 11 New Fetter
Lane, London

This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-

Library, 2005

Number of pages: 288

Special Features: 17 contributors, it includes 8

images and 6 tables

Price: 38.99
Part One: IT as a learning tool: the potential
and the teachers role

Part Two: Learning to use IT as a teaching tool:

strategies for teacher training

Part Three: The management of IT

development in educational institutions
 Information technology
Can quality in learning be enhanced through the use
of IT?
Intellectual and Information technology tools
Communicating, handling and modelling information

Does the word processor really help?

What is word processor? Is it a tool?
Can IT change the nature of early years mathematics
educations?
 Information technology
Do electronic database enable children to engage in information
processing?
Does data logging change the nature of childrens thinking in
experimental work in science?
Can design software make a useful contribution to the art
curriculum?
School experience
Customizing the IT environment
Has the hype any educational potential?
Hypertext
How to use the Information
technology
Computers and the teachers role
Exploring and evaluating how IT can support
learning
- the computer as tutor
- the computer as neutral tool
- the computer as cognitive tool
Partnership in initial teacher education

Do electronic communications offer a new

learning opportunity in education?
 IT Management

IT and the politics of institutional change

Managing change in educational institutions
Organizing IT resources in educational institutions
Managing curriculum development
Strategies for staff and institutional development
for IT in education
 Conclusions
All three components of education curriculum, practice
and institutional management-are challenged by the
introduction of IT and effective use requires the
challenges to be met together.

Teachers need to take on a more active and creative

role as enablers of quality learning experiences.

Partnerships have the role to develop effective teaching

and learning with IT.