Individual, School, and National Factors Impacting Teachers' Workplace Learning: Discourses of Informal Learning in North America and Lithuania

ISBN-13: 9780367418564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 252 str.

Elena Jurasaite-O'Keefe

Opis

By drawing on observation and detailed discourse analysis from interviews with teachers in Lithuanian and North American schools, this text identifies individual, school-specific, and national factors which impact teachers’ informal professional learning.

Spis treści

Part I: Multiple Layers of Workplace Learning  1. The Complexity of Teacher Learning  2. Researching Informal Teacher Learning  3. Portraits of Teachers  Part II: Teachers as Learners  4. Dispositions: Opportunistic—Proactive Learners’ Continuum  5. Sources of Learning: Individual—Social Leaners’ Continuum  6. Reactions to Dilemmas: Emotional—Cognitive Learners’ Continuum  7. Orientation to Problems for Learning: Self—Teaching-Oriented Problems  8. Engagement in Learning Process: Spontaneous—Deliberate  Part III: School Cultures as Contexts for Informal Workplace Learning  9. A Midwestern Elementary School in the USA  10. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Russian Language  11. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Lithuanian Language  Part IV: National Educational Cultures and Teacher Informal Workplace Learning  12. Centralization versus decentralization in educational systems  13. Teaching children versus teaching curriculum  14. Market-driven structure of professional development and evaluation versus structures motivating teachers’ professional growth  15. Teacher identities in a culture that is relatively stable versus a culture that has undergone a radical change  16. Final Thoughts

O autorze

Elena Jurasaite-O’Keefe is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at St John’s University, New York, USA.