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Milner, Alison L.; Scholkmann, Antonia – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Twenty-first century problems have forced international policymakers to consider how education might be reimagined so that citizens have the knowledge and skills to respond to the known and unknown challenges ahead and take an active role in the creation of future societies. While it has been suggested that problem-oriented curricular and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Professionalism, Faculty Development, Problem Based Learning
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Perry, Emily; Boylan, Mark – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Research on teacher professional development is extensive but there are fewer studies about the practitioners who facilitate professional development. Here we report on a pilot programme for professional development facilitators rooted in a cycle of action research. Informed by a categorisation of professional knowledge and skills of facilitators,…
Descriptors: Facilitators (Individuals), Faculty Development, Pilot Projects, Action Research
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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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Kennedy, Aileen – Professional Development in Education, 2014
The area of teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) is of growing interest internationally. However, while an increasing range of literature focuses on particular aspects of CPD, there is a paucity of literature addressing the spectrum of CPD models in a comparative manner. This article therefore considers a wide range of international…
Descriptors: Models, Professional Continuing Education, Best Practices, Training Methods
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Kabakci, Isil; Odabasi, H. Ferhan; Kilicer, Kerem – Professional Development in Education, 2010
Teacher educators need professional development in effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to keep up with the changes and developments in ICT and to pose as a model for teacher candidates. For the purpose of meeting teacher educators' professional development needs in ICT, it is necessary to take…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Mentors, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries