Professional Learning, Induction and Critical Reflection: Building Workforce Capacity in Education - Tapa dura

How should a teacher be taught? This book suggests that it is necessary to move away from the highly technicist and one-size-fits-all approaches to teaching in order to instil confidence throughout a teacher's training. Instead a pedagogy of induction should engage the student in their profession from the outset of their studies.

Robyn Henderson is Associate Professor (Literacies Education) at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She researches in the fields of literacies education, family mobility and its effects on schooling, and the student learning journey in higher education. Themes related to pedagogies, diversity and capacity building run through her work.

Karen Noble is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Educational transitions and change, related to teaching and the education of teachers across contexts, is the focus of her academic work.