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Publication Date: 2024
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Global Education Reform and the Swedish CPD Market: Restricted Professional Learning and the Power of Ideology
Lill Langelotz; Dennis Beach
Professional Development in Education, v50 n3 p564-578 2024
Against the backdrop of global convergences in education reforms, a growing focus on teacher competences has emerged in European policy discourses about teacher professionalism and professional learning and development that has driven an expanding international and national CPD market involving both state and private operators. Developments in Sweden are an example, and the aim of this article is to identify and explore the discourses on teacher professional learning that seem to proliferate on this newly emerged and expanding market and their connections with and consequences for teacher professionalism. Two sets of data have fed the analysis. These are (a) CPD invoices and (b) interviews with school principals. The analysis indicates that the dominant discourses discursively shape teacher professionalism in relation to ideas about teachers as learners as collegial consumers of knowledge. Policy recommendations about peer learning become a subordinated element of a dominant discourse that prioritises and privileges the agency of knowledge producers, such as consultancies, compared to other actors as intermediaries. Commodification is a new key intermediary process in professional learning for teacher professional development.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Global Approach, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Ideology, Teacher Competencies, Professionalism, Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy
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Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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