Popper’s Approach to Education

Stephanie Chitpin is Associate Professor of Leadership, Evaluation, Curriculum and Policy Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada.

• 1. Why a Popperian Approach to Teacher Education: Critical Rationalism in Teaching and Learning 2. A Popperian Approach to Building Teachers’ Knowledge 3. Why Popper’s View of Rationality Should be Considered for Promoting Teachers’ Knowledge 4. Guiding Pre-Service Teachers’ Reflections: A Popperian Analysis using the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework 5. Capturing Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge Growth: Popper’s Philosophy of Science and the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework 6. Advancing Pedagogy through Counter-Inductivity 7. The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework: A Framework for Principals’ Emotional Decision making 8. Principals and the Professional Learning Community: Learning to Mobilize Knowledge 9. Making Just Tenure and Promotion Decisions using the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework