Rethinking Teacher Professional Development
Donald Freeman, "Rethinking Teacher Professional Development "
English | ISBN: 1032146613 | 2023 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1032146613 | 2023 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book presents a new set of ideas to challenge established thinking and to guide researching and designing teacher professional development. Grounded in the work of the Learning4Teaching Project which documented public-sector teachers’ experiences and learning from professional development in three countries, the volume presents a sociomaterial perspective on teacher sensemaking. This teacher-centered perspective disputes the "conventional calculus" in which teachers learn content that they apply in their classrooms. Part I outlines conventional issues in how teacher learning and professional development have been conceptualized and studied; Part II introduces a new group of concepts that rethink these assumptions; and Part III offers important insights to inform professional development across disciplines, cultures, and contexts.
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