Professionally Developing Teachers: Teachers Developing Professionally: A Narrative Inquiry into the Professional Development Experiences of Three Primary School Teachers in North Queensland - Couverture souple

Mensinga-Payard, Christine

 
9783639320657: Professionally Developing Teachers: Teachers Developing Professionally: A Narrative Inquiry into the Professional Development Experiences of Three Primary School Teachers in North Queensland
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639320654 ISBN 13 : 9783639320657
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2010

Synopsis

Professional development for teachers has long been seen as a major way in which student learning outcomes can be improved and new educational practices instituted within schooling systems. This research project, using a narrative inquiry approach described by Clandinin & Connelly (2000), presents three primary school teachers' professional development experiences in regional Australia. The study indicates professional development is an individual experiential process that is ongoing and occurs within a complex professional landscape incorporating biographical, social, historical and systemic contexts of operation. Teachers' professional development is integrally associated with stories of identity over time and incorporates negotiated relationships with others who share the educational landscape in which they work. This narrative inquiry includes not only the participants' perspectives of their experiences, but also the researcher's experiences in using narrative inquiry. The reader is invited to view teachers developing professionally from the individual's perspective and consider the value of such perspectives when considering teachers' professional growth within our schools.

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À propos de l?auteur

BEd(Hons)(James Cook University); MEd Studies(Language & Literacy)(University of South Australia); PhD (James Cook University). Chris has worked in secondary school, adult, vocational, business, community and tertiary education contexts as a teacher; education, training & business consultant and small business owner/manager.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639320654
ISBN 13 
9783639320657
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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