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Section archive - Professional Development

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Meaningfulness Via Participation: Sociocultural Practices for Teacher Learning and Development
Authors: Kaartinen Sinikka
The goal of this study is to investigate the nature of student-teachers' learning practices in primary school chemistry classroom contexts. The theoretical approach of this study is based on the sociocultural view of learning and development. Forty university students participated in the study at the at the Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, Oulu University, Finland. This qualitative case study follows a three-step research design: pre-narrative, intervention and post-narrative, in order to highlight the practices involved in teacher learning and development.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 31, 2010
252
Supporting Teacher Professional Development through Online Video Case Study Discussions: An Assemblage of Preservice and Inservice Teachers and the Case Teacher
Authors: Koc Yusuf, Peker Deniz, Osmanoglu Aslihan
The purpose of this study was to explore the potential value of online video case discussions among preservice and inservice teachers, and the video case teacher as a tool for the professional development of teachers. Participants included a total of 26 preservice and inservice mathematics teachers and a veteran teacher who appeared on the video case.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 12, 2010
253
Nigerian Inservice Teachers' Self-Assessment in Core Technology Competences and Their Professional Development Needs in ICT
Authors: Aduwa-Ogiegbaen Sam E. O.
This study was a survey designed to engage postgraduate inservice teachers from selected universities in the south-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria in selfassessment of core technology competence. 238 teachers participated in the study. The study was also designed to determine the professional development needs of the inservice teachers and their preferred mode of professional development. Results revealed that the majority of the inservice teachers lacked competencies in core technology areas.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 12, 2010
254
Teachers as Professionals and Teachers’ Identity Construction as an Ecological Construct: An Agenda for Research and Training Drawing upon a Biographical Research Process
Authors: Lopes Amélia
This article aims to present the construction of teacher identity as a subjective dimension of the process of teacher professionalisation, viewing it as an ecological construct. To this end, the article presents the results of research carried out during the 1990s and the early twenty-first century, in order to shed some light on the dynamics inherent to each of the levels of analysis and the interactions which are established between them. The article concludes with a discussion of the advantages of this approach for teacher training and research.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 12, 2010
255
Towards Collective Work and Responsibility: Sources of Support within a Freedom School Teacher Community
Authors: Jackson Tambra O.
Alternative and parallel schooling contexts provide educational experiences for U.S. K–12 students grounded in notions of social justice and culturally responsive teaching. College-aged young adults known as “servant-leader interns” are the teachers in this context. In this article, the author examines the nature of the various ways in which servant-leader interns were supported in their development as teachers both at the national training institute and at their local site.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 23, 2009
256
Learning for Professional Life: Student Teachers' and Graduated Teachers' Views of Learning, Responsibility and Collaboration
Authors: Abrandt Dahlgren Madeleine, Hammar Chiriac Eva
The focus of this study is on how final-semester students and newly-graduated teachers experience the formal objectives of teacher education, with a particular view of the concepts of learning, responsibility and collaboration.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 21, 2009
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Conceptions and Knowledge about Childhood in Initial Teacher Training: Changes in Recent Decades and Their Impact on Teacher Professionality, and on Schooling in Childhood
Authors: Pereira Fátima
This paper looks at changes in the conceptions of childhood in recent decades, and their contribution to the understanding of the sociabilities and subjectivities that are moulded in school, and how these relate to teachers' initial training. The results are given of a study on conceptions of childhood, expressed in or related to the initial training of teachers in the 1st Basic Education Cycle (CEB), in Portugal since April 1974.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 21, 2009
258
Further Education Teachers' Accounts of Their Professional Identities
Authors: Jephcote Martin, Salisbury Jane
This study of further education teachers, conducted over a two-year period, captures the realities of their working lives and, in particular, draws attention to how teachers reconcile competing pressures. The study draws on a variety of data including ethnographic observation, journals and biographical accounts to indicate the nature of their fractured professional base that leaves them open to exploitation.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 16, 2009
259
Teachers Learning How to Learn
Authors: James Mary, McCormick Robert
School pupils learning how to learn (LHTL), aimed at helping them develop learning autonomy, requires teachers to develop new classroom practices. Hence teachers LHTL is equally important. The TLRP ‘Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks’ project researched how practices were developed by teachers in 40 primary and secondary schools in England. A key factor was teachers' own engagement in collaborative classroom-focused inquiry. There were strong statistical relationships between school policy, teachers' professional learning and their capacity to promote learning autonomy in their pupils.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 16, 2009
260
The Hierarchy of Strengths: Their Relationships with Subjective Well-Being among Chinese Teachers in Hong Kong
Authors: Chan David W.
This study investigated the hierarchy of strengths in a sample of 228 Chinese prospective and in-service teachers in Hong Kong. Teachers who reported greater life satisfaction, experiencing more positive and less negative emotions tended to be those with higher levels of emotional strengths and strengths of hope and zest.
Published: 2009
Updated: Dec. 09, 2009
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