Student teachers consider cooperating teachers to be one of the most important contributors to their teacher preparation program. Therefore, the ways in which cooperating teachers participate in teacher education are significant. This review seeks to move conceptions of that participation beyond commonly held beliefs to empirically supported claims. The analysis draws on Brodie, Cowling, and Nissen's notion of categories of participation to generate 11 different ways that cooperating teachers participate in teacher education: as Providers of Feedback, Gatekeepers of the Profession, Modelers of Practice, Supporters of Reflection, Gleaners of Knowledge, Purveyors of Context, Conveners of Relation, Agents of Socialization, Advocates of the Practical, Abiders of Change, and Teachers of Children. When set against Gaventa's typology of participation, the resultant grid highlights the importance of negotiated or invited spaces for cooperating teacher participation and provides a new way of thinking about, planning professional development for, and working with cooperating teachers.

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The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a distinctive form of research that is shaped by multi- disciplinary contexts and focuses on practice-driven institutional/curricula/classroom inquiries with an explicit transformational agenda. This essay provides critical insight to the importance of communities of SoTL practitioners, diverse investigations and methodological approaches within and across disciplines. For example, through an integrated and iterative process, a community of SoTL researchers plays a critical role to enhance and sustain on-going SoTL research. Equal to all forms of research endeavour, interpretations of SoTL research require a healthy scepticism, analysis of methodological rigour, and an openness to alternative perspectives and analysis.L'avancement des connaissances en enseignement et apprentissage (ACEA) dans l'enseignement supérieur est une forme de recherche distinctive façonnée par des contextes multidisciplinaires. Axée sur la pratique, elle est centrée sur caractérisée par des enquêtes sur des institutions, des programmes d’enseignement et des classes, tout en axée sur la pratique et visant un objectif transformationnel explicite. Cet essai fournit un aperçu critique de l’importance des communautés d’intervenants de l’ACEA et des diverses enquêtes et approches méthodologiques au sein de chaque discipline et entre elles. Par exemple, grâce à un processus intégré et itératif, la communauté des chercheurs en ACEA joue un rôle essentiel en améliorant la recherche continue sur ce sujet et en la soutenant. Indépendamment du sujet considéré, l’interprétation de la recherche sur l’ACEA suppose de faire preuve d’un scepticisme sain, d’analyser la rigueur méthodologique et d’être ouvert aux autres perspectives et analyses

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