Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewTeacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result. The authors contend that education policy, under pressure from a number of quarters, is retreating into a standardized, audited, and backward-looking arena, with the advances of more progressive educational philosophy being rolled back. In an age where practitioner inquiry and action research have often been ‘hijacked’ for the purposes of broad-based policy implementation, this book offers a rationale for reclaiming the critical edge so fundamental to inquiry-based professional learning. It examines the potential of inquiry-based forms of teacher professional learning to contribute to the growth of professional knowledge for and about teachers’ work. The authors intend that the book will assist in building new forms of professional knowledge that go beyond the current compliance model – engineered from less enduring materials – to inform a new model with its foundations in a strong ethical and moral framework. They also believe that this new model, if implemented, will help to reverse today’s conservative educational trends and make teacher professional development a force for genuine progress once again. They have consciously moved away from the celebratory tone of much of the academic reporting of teacher professional learning, adopting instead a genuinely critical edge. In covering a wide range of policies and practices from across the international spectrum, they have allowed themselves the freedom to engage in serious epistemological arguments about the nature of professional knowledge, as well as how it is constructed and employed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Groundwater-Smith , Nicole MocklerPublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9789048181230ISBN 10: 9048181232 Pages: 158 Publication Date: 28 October 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Current Problematics in Teacher Professional Learning.- How Did We Get Here? Historical Perspectives on Inquiry-Based Professional Learning.- Developing Courage.- Mode 3 Knowledge: What It Is and Why We Need It.- Inquiry as a Framework for Professional Learning: Interrupting the Dominant Discourse.- Reclaiming Quality.- What Is at Stake and What Is at Risk.- Who Pays the Piper? Agendas, Priorities and Accountabilities.- What Learning Community? A Knotty Problem.- Case Study: The Higher Degree.- The Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools.- Closing the Gap: Conclusion.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
