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Challenging Professional Learning (Paperback, New)
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Challenging Professional Learning (Paperback, New)
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Teachers and trainers are dual-professionals - they are required to
have up-to-date industry skills and also skills in teaching and
learning. The issue of professional identity, and the promotion of
maintaining and building pedagogic expertise in relation to their
vocational work, is therefore an extremely important one. This book
argues that quality teaching and learning is very much dependent
upon teachers and trainers undergoing continuing professional
development (CPD), engaging actively in professional learning
activities, generating professional learning communities and
building their level of professionalism to meet increasing teaching
standards. Unfortunately, CPD is battling a context of
intensification of work, pressure of time and economic
restrictions. The completion of CPD under such conditions can often
become tokenistic and hitherto there has been very little research
or evidence base for determining what approaches to CPD are most
effective and efficient. Challenging Professional Learning draws on
a wealth of recent research and evidence on what ingredients are
necessary for effective and efficient (crucial at a time of such
fiscal constraints) professional learning. It also explores the
wider implications of these findings and the concept of learning as
a collective activity. It argues that real professionalism cannot
be achieved in isolation but instead takes place in a context that
has political, social and cultural influences. The book brings
together research from the Institute for Learning and practice
around professional learning to link both individual and collective
professional learning to organisational learning, leadership and
the management of change whilst offering practical suggestions for
improving these practices. It will be of great interest to teacher
educators and their students at undergraduate and post-graduate
levels, as well as anyone who works in higher education and with
professional development.
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