Professional Learning In Changing Contexts
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Professional Learning In Changing Contexts
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Author : Tara Fenwick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Professional Learning In Changing Contexts written by Tara Fenwick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Education categories.
The knowledge and decisions of professionals influence all facets of modern life, a fact reflected by the increasing and distinct emphasis on public accountability for what professionals know and do. The nature of this accountability has been fundamentally transformed in response to a changing context of market pressures, network arrangements, declining discretion and public trust, and public managerialism. To tackle these challenges, an important body of research has emerged which concentrates on the material elements and processes of professional learning, and considers how these affect wider society. This volume presents specific pressures on professionals’ learning in different occupational contexts ranging from public school teaching to medicine and creative industry. These pressures are wrought by changing regulatory frameworks, changing modes of organising, changing demands and changing knowledge authorities in professional practice. The authors stress the importance of understanding these relations as sociomaterial webs through which the important moments of professional action and decisions emerge. This approach moves us beyond accepting ‘learning’ as an identifiable, individualist phenomenon by emphasising the multiplicities around professional practice ‘standards’ and ‘quality’, workarounds, responsibility, agency, and knowledge practices. As the chapters here demonstrate, sociomaterial perspectives raise new questions and methodologies that can highlight what is often invisible in the sometimes messy dynamics of professional learning, and point to new ways of promoting and supporting professional education. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education and Work.
Professional Learning In Changing Contexts
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Author : Tara Fenwick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Professional Learning In Changing Contexts written by Tara Fenwick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Education categories.
The knowledge and decisions of professionals influence all facets of modern life, a fact reflected by the increasing and distinct emphasis on public accountability for what professionals know and do. The nature of this accountability has been fundamentally transformed in response to a changing context of market pressures, network arrangements, declining discretion and public trust, and public managerialism. To tackle these challenges, an important body of research has emerged which concentrates on the material elements and processes of professional learning, and considers how these affect wider society. This volume presents specific pressures on professionals’ learning in different occupational contexts ranging from public school teaching to medicine and creative industry. These pressures are wrought by changing regulatory frameworks, changing modes of organising, changing demands and changing knowledge authorities in professional practice. The authors stress the importance of understanding these relations as sociomaterial webs through which the important moments of professional action and decisions emerge. This approach moves us beyond accepting ‘learning’ as an identifiable, individualist phenomenon by emphasising the multiplicities around professional practice ‘standards’ and ‘quality’, workarounds, responsibility, agency, and knowledge practices. As the chapters here demonstrate, sociomaterial perspectives raise new questions and methodologies that can highlight what is often invisible in the sometimes messy dynamics of professional learning, and point to new ways of promoting and supporting professional education. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education and Work.
Teacher Learning In Changing Contexts
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Author : Alison Castro Superfine
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Teacher Learning In Changing Contexts written by Alison Castro Superfine and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Education categories.
New to the Routledge Advances in Learning Sciences series, this book highlights diverse approaches taken by researchers in the Learning Sciences to support teacher learning. It features international perspectives from world class researchers that exemplify new lenses on the work of teaching, encompassing new objects of learning, methods and tools; new ways of working with researchers and peers; and new efforts to work with the systems in which teachers are embedded. Together, the chapters in this volume reflect a new frontier of research on teacher learning that leverages diversity in the content, contexts, objects of inquiry, and tools for supporting shifts in instructional practice. Divided into three sections, chapters question: What new pedagogies and knowledge do teachers need to facilitate student learning in the 21st century? How do learning sciences’ tools, strategies, and experiences provide opportunities for them to learn these? What role do teachers play as co-designers of educational innovations? What unique affordances does co-design afford for teacher learning? What do teachers learn through engaging in co-design? How do teachers work and learn as part of interdisciplinary teams within educational systems? What might it look like to design for teacher learning in these broader organizational systems? Uniquely highlighting how cycles of reflection and co-design can serve as important mechanisms to support teacher learning, this invaluable book lays the groundwork for sustained teacher learning and instructional improvement.
Teacher Professional Development In Changing Conditions
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Author : Douwe Beijaard
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-12-12
Teacher Professional Development In Changing Conditions written by Douwe Beijaard and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-12 with Education categories.
This book presents some highlights from the deliberations of the 2003 conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT). Part 1 presents the five keynote addresses of the conference, while Parts 2 through 4 present selected papers related to each of three sub-themes: knowledge construction and learning to teach, perspectives on teachers’ personal and professional lives, and teachers’ workplace as context for learning. The chapters in this book provide an array of approaches to understanding the process of teacher learning within the current context of the changing workplace environment. They also provide an important international perspective on the complex issues revolving around the international educational reform movement. Basically, they show how teachers’ workplace (inside and outside schools) are more than ever subject to continuous change and that, subsequently, standards for teaching must be flexible to these changing conditions. This asks for a redefinition of teacher professionalism in which the role of context in teacher learning is emphasized as well as the improvement of the quality of teacher thinking and learning. Related to the ever-changing context of teaching, a dynamic approach to teaching and teacher learning is required, in which identity development is crucial. Researchers have an important role to play in revealing and explaining how teachers can build their professional identity, through self-awareness and reflection, in the ever-changing educational contexts throughout the world.
Developing Teachers And Developing Schools In Changing Contexts
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Author : Zijian Li
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 2008
Developing Teachers And Developing Schools In Changing Contexts written by Zijian Li and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Education categories.
More than ever, schools are regarded as a learning community in which its leaders, and therefore the school's primary agents of change, are expected to stay abreast of the latest developments in education and instruction. This book provides important insights for improving professional development activities, school-university partnerships and networks, educational management, as well as teaching and learning in schools and colleges. It builds on research conducted in the 1990s, during which the pursuit of school improvement and skill development first converged.
Principal Professional Learning
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Author : Jennifer Maynard Shepard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Principal Professional Learning written by Jennifer Maynard Shepard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Educational leadership -- Study and teaching (Continuing education) -- Evaluation categories.
Principals are regularly expected to navigate and lead in contexts of complex change. While professional learning is often seen as a key lever for change, there is minimal research regarding principal professional learning in change contexts and even fewer studies making explicit connections between professional learning and change. This qualitative multi-case study of four principals actively engaged in a district designed and facilitated yearlong professional learning program explores the experiences of principals within the program and identifies critical connection points between professional learning and change. Through a series of semi-structured interviews and document analyses, findings emerged indicating that principals had both unique and common experiences within the program. While not every principal found the professional learning program to be transformational, all four principals identified unique changes in knowledge, beliefs, and practice in relation to the learning priorities and discussed individualized barriers and facilitators to change. Across the four cases, common experiences were identified regarding each of the key players of change: innovation/learning priority, learning environment, change facilitator, and learning environment. Five critical connection points between professional learning and change were identified: collective leadership, coherence, collaboration, differentiation, and praxis. In light of these critical connection points, the Organizational Learning Core emerged as a framework to illustrate the complexity and coherence of the learning priorities within the change context. Three themes were identified regarding the Organizational Learning Core. The first theme is that the Organizational Learning Core is central to personal and organizational change. This theme explores the parallel nature of instruction and learning at the classroom, school and 13 district levels. The second theme is that the Organizational Learning Core provides a framework for authentic, multidimensional coherence. This theme discusses the nature of vertical and horizontal coherence that is authentically established by those within the organization. The third theme is that differentiation within the Organizational Learning Core maintains coherence while supporting the unique needs of learning agents. This theme discusses the need for coherence, while also providing differentiated learning opportunities in response to the unique learning needs of each learning agent. These findings contribute to the fields of both professional learning and change, and serve to connect them, by illuminating evidence that professional learning for principals is a necessary component of organizational change.
Practice Learning And Change
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Author : Paul Hager
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-25
Practice Learning And Change written by Paul Hager and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-25 with Education categories.
The three concepts central to this volume—practice, learning and change—have received very different treatments in the educational literature, an oversight directly confronted here. While learning and change have been extensively theorised, their various contexts articulated and analysed, practice is notably underrepresented. Where much of the literature on learning and change takes the notion of ‘practice’ as an unexamined given, its co-location as a term with various classifiers, as in ‘legal practice’ and ‘teaching practice’, render it curiously devoid of semantic force. In this book, ‘practice’ is the super-ordinate organising idea. Drawing on what has been termed the ‘practice turn in contemporary theory’, the work develops a conceptual framework for researching learning in, and on, practice. It challenges received notions of practice, questioning the assumptions, elisions, conflations and silences on the subject. In so doing, it offers fresh insights into learning and change, and how they relate to practice. In tandem with this conceptual work, the book details site-ontological studies of practice and learning in diverse professional and workplace contexts, examining the work of occupations as various as doctors, chefs and orchestral musicians. It demonstrates the value of theorising practice, learning and change, as well as exploring the connections between them amid our evolving social and institutional structures.
An Eclectic Deliberation On One Professional Development Institute
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Author : Cherice Michelle Montgomery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
An Eclectic Deliberation On One Professional Development Institute written by Cherice Michelle Montgomery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Context (Linguistics) categories.
Learning Vocabulary From Context
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Author : William E. Nagy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Learning Vocabulary From Context written by William E. Nagy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Chinese characters categories.
Professional Learning As Relational Practice
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Author : Jenny Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-04-07
Professional Learning As Relational Practice written by Jenny Reeves and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-07 with Education categories.
Given the emphasis on transforming professional work through the adoption of enquiry-based and trans-disciplinary approaches to service development, there is an urgent need for those involved in professional education to develop a robust understanding of how changes in practice occur. A more inclusive approach to the analysis of the processes involved across the varied and interrelated contexts in which they occur is thus very timely. In this book, Jenny Reeves sets out to explore the gap between the experience of professional learning as an interactive, dynamic and socially contextualised process, and descriptions that are often individualistic, overly linear and largely context-free. She makes the claim that this disjuncture is the outcome of modes of enquiry that concentrate on limited selections of the available data. Adopting a relational approach to describing practice-based professional development, including graphical means for exploring the spaces produced by the activity, provides a very different picture. It creates a basis for representing the complex movements, relationships and interactions between people and things that occur during professional learning. It also provides a productive approach to describing the exchange and creation of professional knowledge across different contexts over time. By building a picture of the ephemeral spaces and connections that educating activities produce, mapping relational space allows those engaged in professional education to think rather differently about how professional learning and changes in knowledge and practice may be understood, supported and developed.