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The Politics of Teacher Professional Development - Policy, Research and Practice (Paperback)
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The Politics of Teacher Professional Development - Policy, Research and Practice (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Education
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The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research
and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers' continuing
development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather
than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is
premised on the understanding that by learning more about the
current conditions under which teachers and other educators work
and learn, it is possible to understand, and consequently improve,
the learning opportunities teachers experience. Teacher
professional development is not simply construed as an isolated
series of events, such as day-long workshops marking the beginning
of each school year or term, or individualistic "one-off"
activities focused on new teaching approaches, curricula or
assessment strategies. Rather, through application of sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu's understanding of social practices as contested,
teacher professional development is revealed as a complex social
practice which exists as policy, as a research product and process,
and as an important part of teachers' work. The book reveals how PD
as policy, research and teachers' work are inherently contested. An
extended series of case studies of teacher professional development
practices from Canada, England and Australia are employed to show
how these tensions play out in complex ways in policy and practice.
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