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Byrne, Jenny; Norman, Amanda – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Drawing on experiential learning and transformative learning theory, a transformative model of continuing professional development (CPD) was employed to implement symbolic gesturing in a day nursery. The model of CPD aimed to empower practitioners working with infants to have autonomy over their professional learning. Perspectives of the nursery…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, School Personnel, Professional Development, Nonverbal Communication
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Lauer, Patricia A.; Christopher, Debra E.; Firpo-Triplett, Regina; Buchting, Francisco – Professional Development in Education, 2014
A narrative literature review was conducted to identify the design features of effective short-term face-to-face professional development (PD) events. The 23 reviewed studies described PD with durations of 30 hours or less and involved participants in education or human service-related professions. Design features associated with positive impacts…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Professional Development, Time on Task, Program Design
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Vloet, Kara; van Swet, Jacqueline – Professional Development in Education, 2010
This article discusses how professional identity, conceptualised as "stories professionals tell about themselves at a specific moment in a specific context", can be portrayed to address its complexity as a dynamic, constructed, cognitive-emotional, multi-voiced, and dialogical concept. In order to construct a narrative-biographical method, eight…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Professional Personnel, Identification, Self Concept