Teachers College Students’ Personal Knowledge Management and it’s Impact on Professional Learning and Development

Author: Mei-Yuh Chen(Department of Elementary Education,National Pingtung University of Education)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 50, No. 2
Date：October 2005
Pages：181-202
DOI：10.3966/2073753X2005105002010

Abstract：

Nowadays, teacher education should enable students to become part of the “knowledge society” in order to foster their professional learning and development; to do so it must help students to absorb and integrate educational theories and personal experiences and also to manage their personal knowledge. Therefore, this study utilized action research; the subjects were students at a teachers college in Taiwan. The eight conclusions of this study were as follows: (1) using teacher education to enhance students’ personal knowledge management skills is a highly challenging process; (2) personal knowledge management tests the problem-solving capacities of teacher education students; (3) cooperative construction of personal educational belief is an effective approach for integrating tacit and explicit knowledge; (4) teacher education students’ personal knowledge is practice-oriented; (5) the tacit knowledge of teacher education students should be elicited; (6) applying dynamic leading strategies can help teacher education students manage their personal knowledge; (7) personal knowledge management helps to promote professional learning and development for teacher education students; (8) teacher education students’ personal knowledge management should stress the factors of timing, leading experiences and coping strategies. Finally, this study provides several suggestions for the promotion of teacher education students’ personal knowledge management, professional learning and development, as well as for the promotion of teacher education.

Keywords：teacher education students, personal knowledge map, personal knowledge management, professional learning and development

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