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Governing through Risk: The Paradoxes of Professional Development and Post-Panoptic Surveillance in Taiwan's Headship Preparation
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Hung-Chang Jason Chen – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Purpose: This study examines the intricate dynamics of Taiwan's Administrative Placement (AP) initiative, a headship preparation policy requiring aspiring principals to undertake placements within Local Education Bureaus (LEBs). Methods: Drawing on Foucault's concepts of governmentality and post-panoptic surveillance, this qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Job Placement
Perspectives of ELF-Informed Teachers in Taiwan
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Yi-Ping Huang; Lu-Chun Lin; Wenli Tsou – ELT Journal, 2025
English as a lingua franca (ELF) represents a substantial paradigm shift in ELT because it challenges the traditional norm of standard English. Despite this changing trend, there is a gap in research on incorporating ELF into in-service teachers' professional development (PD). Given the backdrop that (trans)disciplinary courses are expected to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Teachers