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Bussey, Katherine; Hill, Diti – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This article investigates the approach of care as curriculum and teachers' perceptions of this notion. It is a descriptive account of the interviews of four Aotearoa New Zealand-based infant and toddler teachers' perceptions of care as curriculum. Care as curriculum is a pedagogical approach that was brought to the research process. This was an…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Investigations, Definitions, Interviews
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Jensvoll, Maja Henriette; Lekang, Trond – Professional Development in Education, 2018
This article focuses on the processes that come into play as part of a school development project and how these processes contribute to strengthening teacher professionalism. Through processes of consciousness raising and the development of learning cultures where tacit knowledge becomes explicit and shared, and new practices are tested out and…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Cooperative Learning, Educational Development, Teaching (Occupation)
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Warr Pedersen, Kristin – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider an expanded vision of professional development for embedding education for sustainability (EfS) in a higher education institution. Through an exploration of a community of practice at the University of Tasmania, this paper examines how collaborative peer learning can sustain and promote continued…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Professional Identity, Semi Structured Interviews
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Cross, Michael; Ndofirepi, Elizabeth – Research Papers in Education, 2015
The paper is based on interviews with a sample of 200 teachers from the Limpopo province about their life histories, particularly those aspects related to their choice of teaching as their first career path, and their expectations, experiences and perceptions in this regard. It argues that current approaches to teacher education in South Africa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Career Choice
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Robson, James – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
With a growing number of teachers engaging online with their peers, online social spaces are increasingly highlighted as playing a key role in teachers' professional learning and development. However, while academic and professional discourses tend to focus on the benefits and weaknesses of teachers' engagement in online social spaces, little…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
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Gayton, Angela Mary – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2016
Using a novel theoretical framework that incorporates teacher identity, a school as community of practice, and English as a global language from a linguistic-imperialism perspective, this qualitative interview study with foreign-language teachers in Scotland, France, and Germany (N = 13) explores connections between foreign-language-learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Qualitative Research
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Yuan, Rui; Burns, Anne – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
This study explores how two language teachers constructed and reconstructed their professional identities through their action research (AR) facilitated by university researchers in China. Informed by the theory of 'community of practice', the findings of the study show that AR exerted a transformative impact on the teachers' identity development.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity
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Palmer, Deborah K. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
Teacher leadership has been variously defined but generally understood as expanding teachers' visions beyond their own classrooms. Bilingual education teachers, working with emergent bilingual students in often marginalized situations and contexts, must develop a critical consciousness to embrace leadership identities. This requires engaging in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Literacy, Bilingualism, Interviews
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Kempe, Elspeth; Reed, Yvonne – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
In the extensive literature on teacher professional development, very little attention has been paid to the role of post-graduate study groups, or to the role of on-going professional conversations, in constituting and sustaining teachers' identities as innovative professionals. The purpose of this article is to suggest that on-going…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Professional Identity, Communities of Practice, Case Studies
Rose, Tanya Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teacher professional identity plays a key role in teacher effectiveness and retention and has a direct impact on classroom practice. While there are many factors that contribute to the development of that identity, much of the focus in the literature has been on the individual. Social practice and interaction, however, play equally important roles…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teachers, Charter Schools, Communities of Practice
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Partti, Heidi; Westerlund, Heidi; Lebler, Don – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
Assessment in music is of considerable importance in the context of higher music education, with major projects focusing on assessment principles and practices in a number of locations, including the European community and Australia. This instrumental case study explores assessment practices in two higher music education contexts, namely within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Music Education, Music
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Liu, Yongcan – Teacher Development, 2016
The paper reports on an in-depth narrative case study of an immigrant background English as a Second Language teacher's emotional experience in a teacher professional community in England. The data are derived from the teacher's "emotion diaries" and six interviews during the three-month period when she taught on a pre-sessional English…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Emotional Experience
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Izadinia, Mahsa – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
This article presents a review of 29 empirical studies to identify the main foci of research on student teachers' identity, the methodologies used and their major findings. The reviewed studies were found to investigate four broad factors: the contribution of: (1) reflective activities, (2) learning communities, (3) context and (4) (prior)…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Education, Professional Identity, Educational Research
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Trent, John – Teacher Development, 2014
This article describes the results of a qualitative multiple case study investigation of the experiences of preservice teachers during a teaching practicum in Hong Kong. The study uses in-depth interviews with pairs of student teachers and their school-based supporting teachers to understand how the former positioned themselves as particular types…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Interviews
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Woolhouse, Clare; Cochrane, Matt – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This research paper is framed by concerns about recent UK Government policy regarding the training of mathematics and science teachers in England and discusses how two cohorts of pre-service teachers negotiated the development of a professional identity while undertaking subject-specific training. The data reported upon were garnered in two ways;…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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