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Bjørn Ribers; Gitte Miller Balslev; Christine Revsbech Jensen – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article aims to elaborate multiple dimensions of ethical perception in professionalism and introduces novel didactic viewpoints on educational routes through which professionals learn and develop the moral competencies essential to praxis. Results are discussed from recent innovative research projects on professional didactics, education and…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professionalism, Professional Identity, Ethics
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Giamminuti, Stefania; Merewether, Jane; Blaise, Mindy – Professional Development in Education, 2021
Professional learning is considered essential for early childhood teachers, and is frequently associated with childhood outcomes and dominant constructs of quality which perpetuate neoliberal ideals and position early childhood teachers within a framework of rationality, privileging discourses of masculinity and power. By engaging with feminist…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Reggio Emilia Approach, Educational Research, Feminism
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Helleve, Ingrid; Grov Almås, Aslaug; Bjørkelo, Brita – Professional Development in Education, 2020
The aim of this Norwegian study is to focus on challenges and possibilities concerning professional digital competence (PDC) for teacher education encountering students in transition between the position as private and professionals. Students need to gain a self-understanding of who they are and how to react in a profession where there few correct…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Foreign Countries, Ethics
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Lambirth, Andrew; Cabral, Ana; McDonald, Roger; Philpott, Chris; Brett, Ashley; Magaji, Adewale – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This article addresses the need for 'coherent, holistic frameworks offering insightful understandings as well as viable, connected and synergistic solutions to schools'. We describe a model which emerged from a research study developed in the context of a professional development course attended by more than 150 teachers from primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Leadership, Power Structure, Ethics
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Murphy, Mike; Knowler, Helen – Professional Development in Education, 2016
The authors consider the recasting of teaching as leadership with reference to school principals or heads and claim that many women teachers decline such senior roles and instead prioritize an ethics of care in resistance to neoliberal performative educational cultures. A future-orientated poststructuralist version of authenticity or authentic…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Faculty Development, Professional Education, Ethics
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Flint, Amy S.; Kurumada, Katie Simon; Fisher, Teresa; Zisook, Karla – Professional Development in Education, 2011
The present article discusses the impact of a localized and generative model of professional development on the teaching lives of two American elementary school teachers and a university research team. Within the framework of the ethic of care, the study focused on the construction of relationships between university team members and teachers that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Higher Education
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Ulvik, Marit; Smith, Kari; Helleve, Ingrid – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Education is described as a moral enterprise and many of the professional dilemmas teachers encounter have an ethical aspect. Research on ethical situations that novice teachers experience, however, seems to be limited, and we know little about how teacher education can prepare student-teachers for dealing with ethical issues. In this article a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Ethics
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McGregor, Deb; Hooker, Barbara; Wise, David; Devlin, Linda – Professional Development in Education, 2010
The Educational Doctorate (EdD) at the University of Wolverhampton offers educational practitioners the opportunity to design a research enquiry based in, on or around their professional work. The cohort, reported on here, embarked upon their EdD studies during the 2007/08 academic year. This study reports on seven participants' learning…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Research Design, Ethics, Researchers