Improving learning in a professional context [ a research perspective on the new teacher in school

Based on empirical research, including interviews with new teachers, by teachers themselves, this book reveals the complexity of learning in a professional context and gives some basic truths about

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blake, Allan (Author), McNally, Jim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ;New York : Routledge , c2010
Series:Improving learning TLRP.
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Linda's story : a new teacher's tale
  • 2. The early professional learning of teachers : a model beginning
  • 3. A new concept of teacher-researcher?
  • 4. Feeling professional : new teachers and induction
  • 5. Who can you count on? : the relational dimension of new teacher learning
  • 6. Making room for new teachers : the material dimension in beginning teaching
  • 7. The temporal, structural, cognitive and ethical dimensions of early professional learning
  • 8. Job satisfaction among newly qualified teachers in Scotland
  • 9. Fun in theory and practice : new teachers, pupil opinion and classroom environments
  • 10. Design of the times : measuring interactivity, expert judgement and pupil development in the early professional learning project
  • 11. An age at least to every part : a longitudinal perspective on the early professional learning of teachers
  • 12. The implications of early professional learning for schools and local authorities
  • 13. The invention of teachers : how beginning teachers learn