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Download full textOmotayo Adewale Awodiji; Suraiya Rathankoomar Naicker – Athens Journal of Education, 2025
The role of continuous professional development (CPD) in advancing basic school leaders in the context of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) cannot be overemphasised in the actualisation of positive change in the school system. The 4IR transformed the nature of work across human endeavours, requiring school leaders to be trained and retrained.…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Learning Activities
Direct linkGeraldine Mooney Simmie; Niamh O'Meara; Annette Forster; Veronica Ryan; Tara Ryan – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Shulman (1989) argued how 'outrageously complex' teaching is and how reform imperatives driving standards should not lead to standardisation and the subsequent loss of soul. We assert that framing a model of teachers' Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is similarly 'outrageously complex', a multifaceted construct that has professional,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Improvement
Jaimie Miller-Friedmann; Judith Hillier; Nicola Wilkin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Much research investigates why women do not participate in physics, or why female attrition in physics is high; this study focuses on elite female academic physicists and how they have persisted and succeeded in their fields. As opposed to researching reasons for attrition or not participating, this study focuses on six elite female academic…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Physicians, Women Scientists, Persistence
Mette Liljenberg; Daniel Nordholm; Helene Ärlestig – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article aims to explore educational infrastructures for superintendents' and deputy superintendents' professional development and to analyse what kind of professional development these infrastructures bolster. The article builds on a qualitative case study focusing on the central municipal level in Sweden. Findings are based on data from…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes
Dong Nguyen; Ellen Boeren; Srabani Maitra; Sofie Cabus – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article presents a review of 70 empirical articles focussing on professional learning communities (PLCs) for teachers in the Global South. The review highlights an upward trend in the quantity of the publications on PLCs from 2010 onwards. The evidence suggests that PLCs could be initiated as a result of a mandate, a project of professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Teacher Education, Communities of Practice
Jan Botha; Karen Webber; James Williams; Steve Woodfield – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Institutional Research associations across the world are re-imagining and redesigning their professional development and capacity building activities. This paper outlines the professional development activities of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) in the United States (est. 1966), the European Association for Institutional Research…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Institutional Research, Cooperation, Organizations (Groups)
Alaattin Parlakkiliç – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study aims to determine the e-learning readiness of Turkish family physicians and to obtain the views of program instructors to design the e-learning system. An online questionnaire was applied, and 1172 family physicians answered, and a semi-structured interview was done with the program educators. Infrastructure and equipment readiness was…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Readiness, Instructional Design, Physicians
Lucy Turner; Orla Evans; Farzaneh Heidari – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This reflective commentary explores a student-staff co-creation project focused on fostering inclusive employability within the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University. Working with students from various creative disciplines, the project utilised human-centred design (HCD) to develop practical opportunities for professional development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Professional Development, Design
Neslihan Cansu Salihoglu; Abdullah Çetin – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate how preschool instructors use social media for professional development. Explanatory sequential design, one of the mixed research methods, was used in the research. The quantitative study group of the research consists of 213 preschool teachers working in Kahramanmaras province in the 2020-2021 academic…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Social Media, Professional Development, Foreign Countries
Jyoti Kotecha; Sophie Felleiter; Alisha Seguin; Kristen Korberg; Erica L. Conte – Journal of Research Administration, 2025
Research managers and administrators (RMA) play a vital role in supporting the research mandate of Canadian higher education institutions (universities, colleges, and hospital research) by aiding researchers to successfully obtain funding, comply with granting agency policies, and to manage collaboration. However, the role is not well understood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research, Administrators, Administrator Role
Hung-Chang Jason Chen – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Purpose: This study examines the intricate dynamics of Taiwan's Administrative Placement (AP) initiative, a headship preparation policy requiring aspiring principals to undertake placements within Local Education Bureaus (LEBs). Methods: Drawing on Foucault's concepts of governmentality and post-panoptic surveillance, this qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Job Placement
Tim M. Stevens; Indira N. Z. Day; Perry J. den Brok; Frans J. Prins; Hanneke J. H. E. Assen; Marlies ter Beek; Gunter Bombaerts; Remco Coppoolse; Petra H. M. Cremers; Rik Engbers; Madeleine Hulsen; Rachelle J. A. Kamp; Jur J. Koksma; Kariene Mittendorff; Jan Riezebos; Roeland M. van der Rijst; Margje W. J. van de Wiel; Jan D. Vermunt – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Higher education (HE) is engaged in a variety of educational innovations, as well as professional development initiatives (PDIs) to support teachers in attaining the required expertise. To improve teacher professional learning and development (PLD) and innovation processes, it is important to understand whether, how and why different PLD practices…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Expertise
Gunilla Karlberg-Granlund; Annika Pastuhov – Professional Development in Education, 2024
In this study, we are exploring the development of professional learning of nearly qualified teachers, here referred to as prospective teachers, during their subject teacher education at a Finnish university. From a teacher educator stance, we aim to understand how teacher education practices can support prospective teachers' professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education
Fatemeh Abbaspour; Rezvan Hosseingholizadeh; Mehmet Sükrü Bellibas – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: Current school leadership research has primarily utilized quantitative methods to explore the relationship between leadership and teacher learning. However, there is a notable gap in understanding how principals facilitate professional learning, especially in centralized educational settings. This study aims to address this gap by…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Principals, Teacher Education, Professional Development
Carolina Pacheco de Oliveira; Diego Castro Fettermann; Edwin Guillermo Castro Delgado; Francisco Antonio Moncayo – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the relationship between users' perceived barriers to using virtual and augmented reality technology from stakeholders, identifying perspectives and gaps regarding technology acceptance. Design/methodology/approach: The Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method is useful for quantitatively…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Industry, Correlation, Barriers
