Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education: Perspectives on Professional Learning, Identity, and Agency [Paperback]

1. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in initial teacher education for autonomy?2. Teacher education for autonomy: An analysis of language teacher education initiatives for learner and teacher autonomy 3. Identity and autonomy development in learning to teach EFL: Making sense of cognitive/emotional dissonance 4. Linking principle and practice in initial language teacher education for learner and teacher autonomy: The case for student teacher case writing 5. Enhancing autonomy through inquiry in practicum settings: Insights from a narrative of practice in primary English teaching 6. Language teacher education as a two-way autonomy development process: Student teachers and teacher educators as learners 7. Developing collaborative teacher autonomy for learning to teach English to young learners?8. Autonomous participation in post-observation feedback discussions: Post-practicum teacher candidates as relative old-timers in an ELT methods course 9. Becoming a learner again: Implications for autonomy teacher education?10. From university to schools: Insights from novice language teachers into teacher autonomy?11. Learning to learn foreign languages: Empowering pre-service EFL teachers?12. The use of a self-reflective instrument for pre-service language teachers in Brazil: Discussions on autonomy, agency, and the use of digital technologies 13. Language teacher education for autonomy: Critical issues and possible pathways

This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education.

Why does the nurturing of learner autonomy, essential in an increasingly unpredictable world, remain so elusive in many contexts? This illuminating volume offers a convincing way forward through teacher education case?studies demonstrating the links between the theory-practice nexus and teacher autonomy  an essentiall³ê