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The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

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Authors:
  1. Philip Adey

    1. King’s College London, UK

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  2. Gwen Hewitt
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  3. John Hewitt
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  4. Nicolette Landau
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  4. Modelling Professional Development

    1. Researching Professional Development: Just How Complex is It?

      Pages 143-154

    2. Elaborating the Model

      Pages 155-173

    3. Evidence-Based Policy?

      Pages 175-195

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 197-207
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Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson. But we have chosen to present our own experience and empirical data first and then, in Part 3, to show how this experience and data relates to models which have been proposed by others. We will address here methodological issues concerned with collecting and interpreting evidence of relationships amongst the many individual and situational factors associated with PD, and re-visit the arguments about ‘process-product’ research on PD. In the light of our experience, we will interrogate models of PD which have been proposed by others and attempt to move forward our total understanding of the process of the professional development of teachers for educational change. In conclusion, we will look at some current national practice in professional development, concentrating on the recent English experience of introducing ‘strategies’ into schools but referring also, by way of contrast, to the situation in the United States. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Why has the professional development of teachers already exercised so many good minds for so long? And how can we justify adding another book to this field? The answer to both questions must lie in the continuing demand from society in general (at least as interpreted by politicians and newspaper editors) for improvements in the quality of education.

Authors and Affiliations

  • King’s College London, UK

    Philip Adey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

  • Authors: Philip Adey, Gwen Hewitt, John Hewitt, Nicolette Landau

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48518-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2005-6Published: 31 March 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2006-3Published: 31 March 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48518-3Published: 08 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 207

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education

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