This, the first book in the series, Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, is edited by two experienced, committed and skilled educationists from different parts of the world but with converging values and viewpoints. The result is a rich melange of authors from the USA, Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand all of whom focus on the use of evidence informed decision-making in schools and classrooms. This focus makes for an unusual collection which acts as an antidote to change agendas which are entirely results driven. The book provides evidence from...
This, the first book in the series, Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, is edited by two experienced, committed and...
Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result.
The authors contend that education policy, under pressure from a number of quarters, is retreating into a standardized, audited, and backward-looking arena, with the advances of more progressive educational philosophy being rolled back.
In an age where practitioner inquiry and...
Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings,...
This, the first book in the series, Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, is edited by two experienced, committed and skilled educationists from different parts of the world but with converging values and viewpoints. The result is a rich melange of authors from the USA, Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand all of whom focus on the use of evidence informed decision-making in schools and classrooms. This focus makes for an unusual collection which acts as an antidote to change agendas which are entirely results driven. The book provides evidence from...
This, the first book in the series, Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, is edited by two experienced, committed and...
The working and career lives of teachers have changed radically over the last two decades. Reforms have turned education into a commodity and pupils into consumers . Yet not since 1992 has there been a comprehensive overview of research findings on teachers working lives. This anthology plugs the gap by collecting various scholarly contributions and perspectives on teachers career trajectories and work lives.
The material includes an introduction to previous research within the field, presents a range of contemporary research and offers suggestions as to what lies ahead. Among the...
The working and career lives of teachers have changed radically over the last two decades. Reforms have turned education into a commodity and pupil...
Students entering higher education expect that their studies should lead them towards some form of professional career. They come to university with a range of expectations for their learning as well as for the outcomes of their learning. In this age, where complex internationalised professions are the main source of work for graduates, students need to prepare themselves for a future that can be volatile, changeable and challenging. In this book we show how students navigate their way through learning and become effective students and how they shift the focus of their learning away from...
Students entering higher education expect that their studies should lead them towards some form of professional career. They come to university wit...
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. (For this text, teacher encompasses pre-service teachers, in-service teachers and headteachers, or principals).
New Understandings of Teacher s Work: Emotions and Educational Change is...
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational ch...
Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student voice and the use of images in capturing young people s perspectives on their learning experience. So it is more than fitting that this unique text on practitioner inquiry and teacher professional learning is dedicated to her.
Rethinking Education Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry is a...
Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Co...
