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Valences and Sense of Personal Autonomy with Regard to Professional Development in Dutch Primary Teachers: Do Decision Contexts and Age Make a Difference?
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Glastra, Folke J.; de Brabander, Cornelis J. – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
In this study on motivations concerning professional development (PD) we interviewed 95 primary school teachers in the Netherlands. We coded these data using the Unified Model of Task-specific Motivation (de Brabander & Martens, 2014) in different decision contexts concerning who decides about teacher participation in PD: school board, teacher…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Professional Development, Decision Making, Context Effect
Teachers' Beliefs and Continuing Professional Development
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de Vries, Siebrich; van de Grift, Wim J. C. M.; Jansen, Ellen P. W. A. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: Teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) should improve teacher quality and teaching practices, though teachers vary in the extent to which they participate in CPD activities. Because beliefs influence working and learning, and teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching influence their instructional decisions, this study…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, Structural Equation Models
Communities of Practice in the School Workplace
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Brouwer, Patricia; Brekelmans, Mieke; Nieuwenhuis, Loek; Simons, Robert-Jan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The first aim of this study is to explore to what extent communities of practice occur in the school workplace. The second aim is to explore the relation between communities of practice and diversity in composition of teacher teams. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative as well as qualitative data were gathered from seven teacher…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Learning Activities, Observation, Work Environment
The Policy-Making Capacity of Schools--Results of a Dutch Study.
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Sleegers, Peter; And Others – Educational Management & Administration, 1994
Summarizes a study of 26 Dutch secondary schools to determine the possibility of distinguishing types of schools by their policymaking capacity. Schools' policymaking capacity seems related to teachers' professional orientation. In schools with a colleague-oriented policymaking capacity, teachers participate more in administrative decision making…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making