Teacher development : exploring our own practice / edited by Janet Soler, Anna Craft, Hilary Burgess.
Contributor(s): Soler, Janet
| Craft, Anna | Burgess, Hilary.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Developing practice in primary education.Publisher: London : Sage, in association with The Open University, 2001Description: viii, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0761969306.Subject(s): Education, Elementary -- Great Britain | Elementary school teachers -- In-service training -- Great BritainDDC classification: 372.11
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 372.11 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00054820 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This selection of carefully chosen articles invites teachers to explore their own professional development and review their practice in schools. It draws together the multifaceted nature of primary teaching through a focus upon historical, cultural and political influences and considers the impact this has upon the way primary teachers develop professional knowledge.
Issues explored in the book include: changing approaches to: curriculum selection; school organization and; curriculum planning.
These are situated and considered in the personal contexts of primary teachers′ continuing professional development. Themes explored include: analysis of critical incidents as a strategy for developingreflective practice; issues embedded in individual versus collaborative approaches to
using reflective practice in professional development; the teacher as researcher.
This innovative book draws together issues concerning the way primary teachers develop professional knowledge and the influence this has upon their practice in schools. At the same time it encourages teachers to apply their reading to their own personal context and research an aspect of their own practice. It includes both some of the most recent research alongside classic articles, drawing on the work of some of the most renowned figures in primary education.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Contexts For Professional Practice
- Pedagogy and Culture
- A Perspective in Search of a Method
- Basic, Cores and Choices
- Modernising the Primary Curriculum
- Primary Practice in Historical Context
- Continuing Professional Development
- Nurturing the Expert within
- Horses for Courses or Courses for Horses
- What Is Effective Teacher Development?
- Part 2 Facilitating Professional Development
- Reflections on Reflective Teaching
- Discovering Our Professional Knowledge as Teachers
- Critical Dialogues about Learning from Experience
- Critical Phases and Incidents
- Part 3 Investigating Professional Development
- Why Are Class Teachers Reluctant to Become Researchers?
- A Teacher's Response to 'Reflection-in-Action'
- Networks That Alter Teaching
- Conceptualizations, Exchanges and Experiments
- Autobiographical Research and the Emergence of the Fictive Voice
- Arguing for Your Self
- Identity as an Organising Principle in Teachers' Jobs and Lives