Rethinking Teacher Professional Development - Designing and Researching How Teachers Learn

This book presents a new set of ideas to challenge established thinking and to guide researching and designing teacher professional development. Grounded in the work of the Learning4Teaching project, the volume presents a sociomaterial perspective on teacher sensemaking.

List of contents

Introduction: The three meanings of Learning4Teaching PART ONE: Designing and researching teacher professional development Chapter 1. How conventional thinking has led to a 'calculus" of teacher professional development Chapter 2. Knowing-into-doing: Mapping the organization of teacher professional development Chapter 3. How teacher learning became recognized as a form of learning Chapter 4. Researching teacher professional development: The assemblage, the social geography, and the shadows on the periphery PART TWO: Learning4Teaching PREAMBLE: The Learning4Teaching project and its ideas Chapter 5. Availability and access to professional development: How teacher participation is shaped Chapter 6. (mis)Alignment in professional development Chapter 7. Uptake, usefulness, and use: How professional development moves into teaching Chapter 8. Naming and learning content in professional development: The currency of social facts PART THREE: Rethinking: the Learning4Teaching argument Chapter 9. Learning4Teaching: Researching teacher professional learning at scale Chapter 10. Rethinking teacher professional development: The argument for Learning4Teaching

About the author

Donald Freeman is Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, with visiting appointments at Aston University and the University of Graz.

Summary

This book presents a new set of ideas to challenge established thinking and to guide researching and designing teacher professional development. Grounded in the work of the Learning4Teaching project, the volume presents a sociomaterial perspective on teacher sensemaking.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Freeman, Donald (University of Michigan Freeman, Freeman Donald
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032146645
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214664-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Research in Teacher Education
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Linguistics, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Professional Development, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts, Applied linguistics for ELT