School improvement, like motherhood, has many advocates. Everyone is for it, without having to campaign actively on its behalf. And just as the 100% of people who have had mothers think they know how mothering could be done better, so the (nearly) 100% of people who have been pupils in schools, or have even taught in or managed them, think they know how schools can be im- proved. More precisely, they are sure that schools ought to be improved. The trouble is that they propose a staggering, conflicting range of methods of improving the schools, from;'back to the woodshed" to teacher merit pay,...
School improvement, like motherhood, has many advocates. Everyone is for it, without having to campaign actively on its behalf. And just as the 100% o...
Practitioners in education must keep abreast of an expanding knowledge base and must use it to upgrade their craft skills regularly. How this is to be accomplished can be viewed from a variety of perspectives.
This book contains a collection of these varied perspectives, with individual chapters written by researchers and theoreticians renowned for their work in the area of professional and career development.
Practitioners in education must keep abreast of an expanding knowledge base and must use it to upgrade their craft skills regularly. How this is to be...
