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Jaana Nehez – Educational Action Research, 2024
This article presents an action research project conducted in a Swedish compulsory school. In the project the participants explored ways of identifying actions to improve in the practices of a professional learning community in order to develop teaching. This is important for participants in such communities, since the outcome of developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Participatory Research, Participant Observation
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Bird, Jane – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2020
Performance ethnography is a form of performed research that creates a theatrical representation of ethnographic inquiry. Walford (2009) proposes that frequently performance ethnographers neglect traditional ethnographic practices such as participant observation and substantial time in the field. This paper draws on research which investigated the…
Descriptors: Performance, Ethnography, Participant Observation, Theater Arts
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Rempe-Gillen, Emma – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Teacher collaboration, and teacher professional development within this context, has become an area of interest in recent years. In particular, teacher education has seen the rise of collaboration as an effective school-based professional development activity, where in-service teachers plan, observe and reflect on lessons together. The most common…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration
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Hudson, Nancie J. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This ethnographic research project examines a five-month diversity training program that 16 faculty participated in voluntarily at a university in the western United States. In addition to reviewing diversity issues and challenges in higher education, this article provides information about the program, describes my participant-observer…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Training, Cultural Pluralism
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Scarparolo, Gemma E.; Hammond, Lorraine S. – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Research over the last 15 years has reported that for professional development to be effective, in terms of changing teachers' knowledge and/or instructional strategies, it needs to be conducted taking into consideration the following factors: teachers' existing knowledge, experience and attitudes towards the professional development, school…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Cooper, Jason – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2019
Teachers and mathematicians hold different perspectives on the teaching and learning of whole number arithmetic. Though these perspectives may be complementary, sharing them across communities is challenging. An unusual professional development course for primary school teachers, initiated and taught by research mathematicians, provided a setting…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Numbers
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Shin, Jihae – Music Education Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine interactions among in-service music teachers in a graduate music teacher education programme using Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder's [2002. "Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge." Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press] Communities of Practice (CoPs) framework. The…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Graduate Study, Teacher Education Programs, Music Education
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Templeton, Lindsey; O'Meara, KerryAnn – Journal of Faculty Development, 2018
The ADVANCE Leadership Fellows Program at the University of Maryland is a yearlong professional development program for faculty aspiring to or recently engaged in leadership roles. Data shows an increase in participants' sense of agency to become academic leaders following the program. We use a comprehensive data set, including program…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Role
Kohl, Lauren M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The promise of using instructional technology to enhance student learning has been a dream and a goal for more than 30 years. During these past few decades, the reasoning has shifted from providing word processing, to supporting information access, to preparing students to become global citizens in our continually evolving technological world.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology, Middle Schools, Case Studies
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Brücknerová, Karla; Novotný, Petr – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This article interprets data from qualitative research into intergenerational learning (IGL) among teachers at Czech primary and secondary schools. The objective of the text is to answer the question: "What are teachers of different generations learning from one another in schools and in what ways does this learning take place?" Drawing…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Intergenerational Programs, Faculty Development, Qualitative Research
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Broad, Janet Hamilton – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The paper presents empirical data to consider some of the current debates concerning the nature of vocational knowledge taught in Further Education colleges to students following craft, vocational and occupational courses. The concept of "knowledge in motion" and workplace learning theories are employed as a conceptual framework to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Workplace Learning, Learning Theories
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Leonardi, Bethy – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
In this article, I examine the relationship between large-scale social discourses and local, school discourses as it plays out in conversations about gender and sexuality with and among teachers, specifically in the context of the passage of the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act in California. Grounded in feminist…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Middle Schools, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers
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Cebrián, Gisela – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to present a collaborative action research project conducted at the University of Southampton with the aim to promote curriculum and professional development in education for sustainable development (ESD) and learn from everyday practices of academics. Design/methodology/approach: An action research approach guided by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Research Projects, Sustainable Development
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Doerr-Stevens, Candance; Woywod, Christine – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2018
Contextualized by efforts to support arts integration in one of the largest school districts in the United States, this qualitative study examines the experiences of educators as they participate in various arts-centred forms of professional development. Drawing on the work of, the tenets of arts-centered learning, the authors use Mediated…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Education, Art Education, Integrated Curriculum
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Kul, Umit – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this study was to explore the degree to which a professional development (PD) program designed using GeoGebra influences a group of Turkish middle school teachers' beliefs in relation to mathematics and role of GeoGebra in mathematics education. In order to collect the required data, the PD course was established to provide six teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influence of Technology, Technology Integration, Faculty Development
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