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Aoife Brennan; Alan Gorman – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Professional learning (PL) for inclusion is a key policy focus internationally, arising from a growing commitment to the goal of a rights-based approach to education for all. Transformative teacher PL for inclusion is paramount to this goal but it is a complex endeavour, as evidenced in the persistent knowledge-practice gap relating to inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Professional Development, Inclusion
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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
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Chang, Sharon – Professional Development in Education, 2021
The Change Laboratory methodology offers the potential to support expansive learning in preservice bilingual teacher education. This qualitative case study examines how ten preservice Chinese and Korean bilingual teachers, who participated in a Change Laboratory intervention, engaged one of the major Change Laboratory instruments, the four-field…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Bilingual Teachers, Korean, Preservice Teacher Education
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Cramp, Andy – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This article explores the outcomes of a school leadership study visit to India. The research critiques the competency-based frameworks common in English leadership development programmes, and argues instead for an approach that challenges assumptions in a fresh context for learning and considers leadership as a process of humanisation. Using…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Models, Foreign Countries
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Sugrue, Ciaran – Professional Development in Education, 2011
Consistent with the impact of globalisation and international social movements in general, the rather conservative and stable educational system in Ireland has been buffeted severely over the past two decades by a major acceleration in the pace of change and the extent of policy churn. Now that the Celtic Tiger has died, it is a time for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Grierson, Arlene L.; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Professional Development in Education, 2009
This qualitative case study explored the experiences of eight observing teachers, a demonstration teacher, and a program department consultant, who over a nine-month period participated in a demonstration classroom professional development initiative. Analyses of participants' experiences documented how the initiative created a catalyst for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Faculty Development, Differentiated Staffs