eprintid: 10014573 rev_number: 12 eprint_status: archive userid: 587 source: pure dir: disk0/00/01/45/73 datestamp: 2014-03-22 10:49:01 lastmod: 2017-12-07 21:26:32 status_changed: 2013-06-01 03:32:37 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Heilbronn, Ruth creators_id: r.heilbronn@ioe.ac.uk title: The nature of practice-based knowledge and understanding ispublished: pub divisions: B14 keywords: Learning contexts, Schools and Teaching, Social Sciences(all) abstract: The chapter situates teaching as a practice in which the knowledge and understanding required of expert practitioners is neither wholly practicol nor wholly theoretical. The chapter discusses the natuire of teacher knowledge and understanding and the importance of the development of practical judgement,which might characterised as a capacity to do the right thing at the right time, to respond flexibly and appropriately in the moment. Judgement is a fundamental capacity for teachers. date: 2010 date_type: published publisher: Institute of Education, University of London oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green full_text_status: public place_of_pub: London pagerange: 2-14 pages: 12 refereed: FALSE isbn: 9780854738595 book_title: Critical Practice in Teacher Education citation: Heilbronn, Ruth; (2010) The nature of practice-based knowledge and understanding. In: Critical Practice in Teacher Education. (pp. 2-14). Institute of Education, University of London: London. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10014573/1/Heilbronn_Ch_1_Critical_Practice.pdf