ABSTRACT
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from eighteen countries across seven continents, the forty chapters are grouped into ten themes which represent key aspects of teacher and school development:
- Issues of Professionalism and Performativity
- What Being an Effective Teacher Really Means
- Reason and Emotion in Teaching
- Schools in Different Circumstances
- Student Voices in a Global Context
- Professional Learning and Development
- Innovative Pedagogies
- School Effectiveness and Improvement
- Successful Schools, Successful Leader
- Professional Communities: their practices, problems & possibilities
Each theme expertly adds to the existing knowledge base about teacher and school development internationally. They are individually important in shaping and understanding an appreciation of the underlying conditions which influence teachers and schools, both positively and negatively, and the possibilities for their further development.
This essential handbook will be of interest to teacher educators, researchers in the field of teacher education and policy makers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Introduction
part |54 pages
Issues in teacher professionalism and performativity
chapter |14 pages
Performing to expectations
part |54 pages
Conjuncture and disjuncture in teachers' work and lives
part |48 pages
Reason and emotion in teaching
chapter |10 pages
Growing immigration and multiculturalism in Europe
part |45 pages
Schools in different circumstances
chapter |10 pages
Collaborative inquiries into literacy, place and identity in changing, policy contexts
chapter |9 pages
Teachers, the politics of the governed and educational development
chapter |10 pages
The politics of teacher development for an indigenous people
part |49 pages
Student voice in a global context
chapter |10 pages
Agency, access, silence and ethics
part |47 pages
Professional learning and development
chapter |9 pages
Continuing professional learning in the Asia-Pacific region
part |59 pages
Innovative pedagogies
chapter |16 pages
Weaving as frontload and backend pedagogies
part |48 pages
School effectiveness and improvement
chapter |10 pages
Good schools for some but why not better schools for all?
chapter |11 pages
Capital formation in the futures focused school
part |47 pages
Successful schools, successful leaders
chapter |10 pages
Successful schools across North America
part |58 pages
Learning about professional communities