Teacher Educators’ Practices from the View of Building Lifelong Learning Capabilities in Student Teachers

Abstract

Drawing on evidences collected from one university based teacher education program in Ethiopia, this study presents what teacher educators and student teachers are thinking that expert teacher educators are doing and what actually they experienced in developing and sustaining lifelong learning abilities in student teachers. To this end, the study used qualitative research approach. Accordingly, 12 teacher educators and 14 student teachers were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed and then through re-reading of transcripts, thematic areas were identified and categorized. Then, narration produced for selected major categories to give deeper insight into the practices of teacher educators.