The Practice of Teachers’ Professional Development A Cultural-Historical Approach /

• Main Author: Grimmett, Helen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.
• Series: Professional Learning
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

This book uses Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory to provide a unique theorisation of teachers’ professional development as a practice. A practice can be described as the socially structured actions set up to produce a product or service aimed at meeting a collective human need. In this case, col...