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Geraldine 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
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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
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Bjørn Ribers; Gitte Miller Balslev; Christine Revsbech Jensen – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article aims to elaborate multiple dimensions of ethical perception in professionalism and introduces novel didactic viewpoints on educational routes through which professionals learn and develop the moral competencies essential to praxis. Results are discussed from recent innovative research projects on professional didactics, education and…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professionalism, Professional Identity, Ethics
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Larysa Kolesnyk; Heidi Biseth – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article focuses on the learning activities provided for ten experienced teacher educators from six teacher education institutions in Ukraine. The authors examine how teacher educators approach professional development when introducing a new interdisciplinary course in teacher education programmes Methods of Teaching the interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Professional Development, Global Approach, Educational Change
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Huang, Liang; Pang, Nicholas Sun-Keung; Huang, Ya-Ting – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Building school capacity for teacher learning is the competitive advantage that leads to schools' sustained improvement. Literature has highlighted the importance of school capacity building. However, scant research has explored how schools in the specific contexts practically build their capacity for teacher learning. Using qualitative data…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Bain, Yvonne; Bruce, Jayne; Weir, Douglas – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This article is a descriptive analysis of the local impact of a national school/university partnership programme in Scotland. Starting from a high-level report on improving teacher education, a series of recommendations was filtered through various stages and agencies until local providers (local authorities and higher education institutions) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement
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Lunenberg, Mieke; Murray, Jean; Smith, Kari; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Professional Development in Education, 2017
In this article we present an embedded case study focused on the learning activities provided for and by us through our involvement in an international forum focused on the professional development of teacher educators. The aim of this research was to gain more insight into the complicated processes of professional learning across national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Faculty Development, Learning Activities
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Lofthouse, Rachel; Thomas, Ulrike – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Teachers are often encouraged to work in partnerships to support their professional development. In this article we focus on three forms of working partnerships based in English secondary schools. Each has an intended function of developing teaching practices. The cases of mentoring, coaching and an adapted lesson study come from both initial…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Partnerships in Education, Mentors
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Jackson, Alison; Eady, Sandra – Professional Development in Education, 2012
In this paper the authors suggest that teacher educators in higher education institutions (HEIs) in England are not fully convinced that teaching should be a Masters profession. The original engagement with Masters-level provision for student-teachers in England seems to have been founded on a technicality rather than a committed philosophical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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Kidd, Warren – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This article addresses key issues in pre-service teachers' professional learning. The argument explores pre-service teachers' learning and practice, which is both informed by technology and which uses technologically enhanced practices in classrooms as learning and teaching strategies. The article is contextualized by current…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Preservice Teachers, Professional Development, Change Agents
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Coombs, Steven; Simon, Catherine A. – Professional Development in Education, 2011
There is no doubt that education services and welfare policy are now seen as key drivers within the high-priority social policy arena of Children's Services that has become the dominant reform of local authorities throughout England. This article considers questions surrounding the issue of how an effective continuing professional development…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education
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Wilkins, Chris; Busher, Hugh; Kakos, Michalis; Mohamed, Carmen; Smith, Joan – Professional Development in Education, 2012
This paper draws on a range of theoretical perspectives on the construction of new teachers' professional identity. It focuses particularly on the impact of the development in many national education systems of a performative culture of the management and regulation of teachers' work. Whilst the role of interactions with professional colleagues…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Development, Professional Identity, Teacher Student Relationship
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White, Elizabeth – Professional Development in Education, 2011
As a new teacher educator of beginner teachers on the Graduate Teacher Programme in a large School of Education in a UK university, I have reflected on how I have been able to develop the effectiveness of modelling good professional practice to student-teachers. In this paper I will present ways in which I have made modelling more explicit, how…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Educators, Student Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Vloet, Kara; van Swet, Jacqueline – Professional Development in Education, 2010
This article discusses how professional identity, conceptualised as "stories professionals tell about themselves at a specific moment in a specific context", can be portrayed to address its complexity as a dynamic, constructed, cognitive-emotional, multi-voiced, and dialogical concept. In order to construct a narrative-biographical method, eight…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Professional Personnel, Identification, Self Concept
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Totterdell, Michael; Hathaway, Tanya; la Velle, Linda – Professional Development in Education, 2011
The design and early implementation of a major national design initiative in England, the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), is described in this paper. This novel hybrid master's degree seeks to span the traditional academic-practitioner divide, reconstitute the theory-practice dynamic as reciprocal and co-construct an authentic signature…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Program Design, Foreign Countries, Career Development
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