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Direct linkTiplic, Dijana; Elstad, Eyvind; Brandmo, Christian; Steingrímsdóttir, María; Engilbertsson, Guðmundur – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Encouraging teachers to participate in collaborative learning activities for professional development has become an important part of educational reform strategies in many countries. Recent research suggests these activities may play an important role in the professionalization of the teaching profession. In Iceland, teachers report the highest…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Change, Teacher Collaboration, Foreign Countries
Download full textLim, Louis – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
Work intensification has increased the workload and complexity of work performed by principals and vice-principals. This case narrative provides an account of work intensification on the secondary vice-principal role. The vice-principal role consists of administrating to various school operations and instructional leadership duties as assigned by…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Secondary Schools, Time Management
Bolhuis, E. D.; Schildkamp, K.; Voogt, J. M. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Using data in a professional learning community is a promising form of professional development. In this study, we followed a data team of teacher educators, who systematically tried to improve the education of student teachers (by decreasing first year drop-out). By conducting a single case study, we investigated the data team participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Observation, Interviews
Kaasila, Raimo; Lutovac, Sonja – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Research relationships are often poorly understood. Why are some collaborations between research partners more productive than others? This question was a starting point of this paper. By describing their own experiences over a period of three years, the authors evaluated research relationships through collaborative self-study. At the beginning,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Research Projects, Research Administration, Cultural Differences
Hamilton, Mary Agnes; Hamilton, Stephen F. – Applied Developmental Science, 2015
Social inventions are new ways of solving human problems. This article reports on an action research project designed to find social inventions to reduce structural lag in four programs that support the transition to adulthood of marginalized youth in Latin America. The investigators engaged youth and staff members in identifying important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs
Mompoint Gaillard, Pascale; Rajic, Višnja – Online Submission, 2014
Communities of practice as organisations of learning have developed different forms as: task-based, practice-based or knowledge based communities (Barab et al., 2004). The paper presents a case study of a successful community of practice developed under the umbrella of Council of Europe Pestalozzi programme for teacher development. The programme…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Virtual Classrooms, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Hunter, Thelma; Walsh, Glenda – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
As more countries align their curricular frameworks with play-based and experiential pedagogies, this paper provides a critical insight into the benefits and challenges that arise in practice when a play-based approach to learning and teaching becomes a political directive in Northern Ireland primary schools. Drawing on socio-constructivist and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Classroom Environment, Elementary Schools
McInnes, Karen; Howard, Justine; Miles, Gareth; Crowley, Kevin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
This paper presents research that examines the links between practitioners' understanding of play and its relationship to learning, their pedagogic interactions with children and children's own perceptions of their play. Previous research has shown a mismatch between practitioners' understanding of play and their practice. This research identifies…
Descriptors: Play, Child Caregivers, Educational Practices, Individual Differences
Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Weil, Amandine; Woodall, Jean – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: To explore and describe the roles, activities and strategies of French human resource development professionals. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based primarily on exploratory and descriptive research. A range of secondary sources on European and French human resource development is critically reviewed to generate a number of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Human Resources
