Designing Professional Development for Better Pedagogy : a higher education experience in Pakistan

Chaudary, Imran Anjum; Imran, Shahida

ISBN 10: 147761432X / ISBN 13: 9781477614327

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing Professional Development for Better Pedagogy : a higher education experience in Pakistan
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147761432X
• ISBN 13: 9781477614327
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Fragmented, unfocused, and top down approaches to professional development are unrealistic, ineffective and do not promise anything significant to teachers and their contexts. This book questions professional development for Pakistani Tertiary/Higher education teachers. It does so from the perspectives of Pakistani teachers gained through a qualitative, ethnographic case study. The analysis of these previously unheard voices revealed themes that expand our understanding of the problematic nature of professional development. The authors through their study indicate the need to reform professional development and to assist in these reforms, they suggest that teachers need to gain a wide repertoire of teaching to become better practitioners, and to do so, a site-based provision of professional development with social learning as the pedagogy is preferred as a design.

About the Author

Shahida Imran (PhD Candidate) is an independent academic and educational consultant in gender studies, curriculum improvement, and innovative instructional strategies for gender mainstreaming. Shahida is currently working as a research scholar at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Dr. Imran Anjum, born and raised in Gujranwala, Pakistan, is a Doctor of  Philosophy in Education with a focus on teacher professional learning. He was  educated at Government College Lahore, Melbourne Graduate School of  Education (UoM), and College of Arts, Law and Education (UTas). He takes interest in studying relationship, emotion, identity, and voice issues in learning and teaching in higher education. 

Now an independent academic and a full-time writer, Imran and his wife, Shahida, currently reside in Australia with their five beautiful children.