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This book provides a comprehensive understanding of India's continuing professional development (CPD) landscape. It examines the issues surrounding the professional development of English language teachers in India at the tertiary level from multiple perspectives. Further, it evaluates various models of continuing professional learning (CPL) and emphasizes the transformative model as a solution to the social, administrative, or other impediments teachers encounter in their lives. Importantly, it presents examples, solving academic and non-academic problems in formal and informal, and face-face and technology-mediated forms of teaching and learning by teachers of English in different contexts. It discusses the latest developments in the literature related to the transformative and reflective approach to classroom problems faced by teachers on the ground such as classroom environment, students' socio-economic background, teachers education, and teacher assessment. Also, it positions continuing professional development (CPD) as having transformative power in teaching English in India and how it can improve students' learning opportunities. The book is relevant to English language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in India and across the globe to address significant issues in the field: how to handle every classroom situation and how to train oneself as a teacher as well as a teacher educator.
List of contents
Introduction and Overview.- Continuing Professional Development and Culture: Developing as an English Teacher in India.- Teacher Motivation, Professional Development, and English Language Education.- Continuing Professional Development in Education.- Reflective Trainer Training Program: Experiences and Challenges.- Perceptions and Initiatives of Teachers toward Continuing Professional Development.- Teacher Self-Assessment as a Key to Teacher Empowerment.- Teacher Research for Continuing Professional Development: 3R Approach.- Teacher Cognition and Professional Development of English Language Teachers.
About the author
Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel is a Senior Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He has published over 80 papers in national and international journals of repute and in some edited volumes. He has brought out three volumes of poetry: Poetry of Life (1997), Muse Time (1998), and Purpose of Life (1998), a critical study The Indian Imagination of Girish Karnad (2000), a booklet Writing for Mass Media (2005), and an edited volume Critical Perspectives on American Literature (2008). He has also published innovative textbooks for college students: English and Communications Skills (2009), English and Soft Skills Vol. 1 (2010), Communication and Soft Skills (2015), Positive Traits for College Students (2015), Personality Development (2018), and English and Soft Skills Vol. 2 (2019). Further, he has authored English Language Teaching in India: The Shifting Paradigms (2012) as a resource book for English teachers in India. Besides his regular teaching and research at IIT Madras, he has also been teaching two online courses, one on "Poetry" and another on "Literature and Life" through the NPTEL/SWAYAM portal.
