Teacher Development: Exploring Our Own Practice (Developing Practice in Primary Education series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761969306 ISBN 13: 9780761969303

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This selection of carefully chosen articles invites teachers to explore their own professional development and review their practice in schools. It draws together the multifaceted nature of primary teaching through a focus upon historical, cultural, and political influences and considers the impact this has upon the way primary teachers develop professional knowledge.

Issues explored in the book include: changing approaches to: curriculum selection; school organization and; curriculum planning.

These are situated and considered in the personal contexts of primary teachers′ continuing professional development. Themes explored include: analysis of critical incidents as a strategy for developingreflective prac

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About the Authors

Anna Craft is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, England, where she leads the CREATE research cluster. She is also Reader at The Open University, England, and Director of The Open Creativity Centre. She is founding Co-Editor Thinking Skills and Creativity (Elsevier) and founding Co-Convenor of the British Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Creativity in Education. She holds a Visiting appointment at Harvard University and has held visiting appointments at Hong Kong Institute of Education. Her most recent books include Creative Learning 3-11 and how we document it (Trentham Books, 2007), Creativity in Schools: Tensions and Dilemmas (Routledge, 2005), Creativity and Early Years Education (Continuum, 2002), Creativity Across the Primary Curriculum (RoutledgeFalmer, 2000). Her empirical work, informed by constructivist and socio-cultural views of learning, seeks to impact practice, policy and theory.

Hilary Burgess, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Research and Development in Teacher Education (CReTE), Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761969306
• ISBN 13: 9780761969303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Soler Janet M, Craft Anna, Burgess Hilary