INTUITIVE PRACTITIONER

Introduction

Part one: Perspectives on intuition in professional learning and practice

Intuition and the crisis in teacher professionalism
The anatomy of intuition
Trusting your own judgement

Part two: Intuition and initial teacher education

Learning to teach
intuitive skills and reasoned objectivity
Awareness and intuition
how student teachers read their own lessons
The role of intuition in mentoring and supporting beginning teachers
Elaborated intuition and task-based English language teacher education

Part three: Intuition and continuing professional development

The development of professional intuition
The formal and the intuitive in science and medicine
Complex decision-making in the classroom
the teacher as an intuitive practitioner
Developing intuition through management education

Part four: Intuition and assessment

Assessment and intuition
Measurement, judgement, criteria and expertise
intuition in assessment from three different subject perspectives
Intuition and the development of academic literacy

Part five: The intuitive practitioner: A critical overview

The intuitive practitioner
a critical overview
Conclusion
Index.

Much of the time, experienced professionals in both education and other fields cannot explain what they are doing, or tell you what they know; and students cannot articulate their learning. Yet professional development and practice are often discussed as if conscious understanding and deliberation are of the essence. The Intuitive Practitioner tackles this apparent paradox head on, and explores the dynamic relationship between reason and intuition in the context of professional practice. Focusing mainly on the professional world of the teacher, but with illustrative discussions of medical and business practice, the contributors delicately unpick the vexed and neglected nature of intuition, and demonstrate the vital role it plays in the development of professional judgement and expertise.