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Amélia Lopes; Assunção Folque; Margarida Marta; Rita Tavares de Sousa – Professional Development in Education, 2024
In recent decades, neoliberal logics have affected the teaching profession and, consequently, had a direct impact on teachers' professionalism. The aim of this paper was to conduct a literature review to determine the most significant arguments and debates about teacher professionalism in the last 10 years and its relation to a transformative…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Transformative Learning, Educational Research, Publications
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Eisuke Saito – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Professional learning may be the most significant when the teacher feels fundamentally challenged and questioned about their practices, beliefs, or identities. In this paper, the elements that cause such fundamental challenges and questions -- disruptions -- are called 'disruptive hooks'. In the process of addressing such disruptive hooks,…
Descriptors: Teachers, Professional Development, Inquiry, Learning Processes
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Corina González-Weil; María Isabel Reyes-Espejo; Paulina Bravo González; Felipe Acuña Ruz; Fabián Fernández Araneda – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are valuable spaces for collaboration and reflection to promote the transformation of teaching practice and resilience to change. In PLCs that are sustained over time, trust-building is a key element. In Latin America, school systems and educational models are based on mistrust, which in Chile is consistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Douglas P. S. Andrews – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teachers face numerous challenges in their efforts to be pedagogically responsive to students' different learning needs. I extend scholarship in the field by exploring the potential of implementing a nuanced, collaborative intervention strategy called knotworking to facilitate teachers' ongoing professional development (PD). The heuristic of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Collaboration