Teacher Development Exploring Our Own Practice [Hardcover]

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

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

PART ONE: CONTEXTS FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Pedagogy and Culture - Robin Alexander
A Perspective in Search of a Method
Basic, Cores and Choices - Robin Alexander
Modernising the Primary Curriculum
Primary Practice in Historical Context - Brian Simon
Continuing Professional Development - Marion Dadds
Nurturing the Expert within
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