Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance Mind the Gap /

• Main Authors: Mockler, Nicole (Author), Groundwater-Smith, Susan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; 2
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Learning & Instruction.; Sociology of Education.

Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result. The...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Current Problematics in Teacher Professional Learning
• How Did We Get Here? Historical Perspectives on Inquiry-Based Professional Learning
• Developing Courage
• Mode 3 Knowledge: What It Is and Why We Need It
• Inquiry as a Framework for Professional Learning: Interrupting the Dominant Discourse
• Reclaiming Quality
• What Is at Stake and What Is at Risk
• Who Pays the Piper? Agendas, Priorities and Accountabilities
• What Learning Community? A Knotty Problem
• Case Study: The Higher Degree
• The Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools
• Closing the Gap: Conclusion.