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Challenging Professional Learning
Sue (Ed) Crowley
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Description for Challenging Professional Learning
Paperback. Editor(s): Crowley, Sue. Num Pages: 184 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JNF; JNKH; JNMT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
Teachers and trainers are dual-professionals - they are required to have up-to-date industry skills and also skills in teaching and learning. The issue of professional identity, and the promotion of maintaining and building pedagogic expertise in relation to their vocational work, is therefore an extremely important one. This book argues that quality teaching and learning is very much dependent upon teachers and trainers undergoing continuing professional development (CPD), engaging actively in professional learning activities, generating professional learning communities and building their level of professionalism to meet increasing teaching standards. Unfortunately, CPD is battling a context of intensification of work, pressure of time and economic restrictions. The completion of CPD under such conditions can often become tokenistic and hitherto there has been very little research or evidence base for determining what approaches to CPD are most effective and efficient. Challenging Professional Learning draws on a wealth of recent research and evidence on what ingredients are necessary for effective and efficient (crucial at a time of such fiscal constraints) professional learning. It also explores the wider implications of these findings and the concept of learning as a collective activity. It argues that real professionalism cannot be achieved in isolation but instead takes place in a context that has political, social and cultural influences. The book brings together research from the Institute for Learning and practice around professional learning to link both individual and collective professional learning to organisational learning, leadership and the management of change whilst offering practical suggestions for improving these practices. It will be of great interest to teacher educators and their students at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, as well as anyone who works in higher education and with professional development.
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415816946
SKU
V9780415816946
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99-2
About Sue (Ed) Crowley
Sue Crowley has worked within the FE and skills sector as a teacher, manager and leader for over 40 years; she was a founder member of the Institute for Learning and is its current, elected chair.
Reviews for Challenging Professional Learning
The fact that the book is short and clearly set out means that....those who engage in and commission CPD in FE and as such could help make professional development more relevant and effective. - David Everett, Education in Chemistry