Individual, School, National Factors Impacting Teachers Workplace - Discourses of Informal Learning in North America and Lithuania

By drawing on observation and detailed discourse analysis from interviews with teachers in Lithuanian and North American schools, this text identifies individual, school-specific, and national factors which impact teachers' informal professional learning.

List of contents

Part I: Multiple Layers of Workplace Learning 1. The Complexity of Teacher Learning 2. Researching Informal Teacher Learning 3. Portraits of Teachers Part II: Teachers as Learners 4. Dispositions: Opportunistic—Proactive Learners’ Continuum 5. Sources of Learning: Individual—Social Leaners’ Continuum 6. Reactions to Dilemmas: Emotional—Cognitive Learners’ Continuum 7. Orientation to Problems for Learning: Self—Teaching-Oriented Problems 8. Engagement in Learning Process: Spontaneous—Deliberate Part III: School Cultures as Contexts for Informal Workplace Learning 9. A Midwestern Elementary School in the USA 10. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Russian Language 11. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Lithuanian Language Part IV: National Educational Cultures and Teacher Informal Workplace Learning 12. Centralization versus decentralization in educational systems 13. Teaching children versus teaching curriculum 14. Market-driven structure of professional development and evaluation versus structures motivating teachers’ professional growth 15. Teacher identities in a culture that is relatively stable versus a culture that has undergone a radical change 16. Final Thoughts

About the author

Elena Jurasaite-O’Keefe is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at St John’s University, New York, USA.

Summary

By drawing on observation and detailed discourse analysis from interviews with teachers in Lithuanian and North American schools, this text identifies individual, school-specific, and national factors which impact teachers’ informal professional learning.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Jurasaite-O’Keefe, Elena (St Johns University Jurasaite-Okeefe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032048321
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204832-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Research in Teacher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy