Teacher Professional Development in Changing Conditions (PDF)

From the contents: Introductory chapter.-Trends and Themes in Teachers'Working and Learning Environment.- Part I: Perspectives on Knowledge, Context and Learning by Teachers.- Knowledge Construction and Learning to Teach about Teaching. Shifting Stories to Live by: Interweaving the personal and professional in teachers' lives.- The Crucible of the Classroom: A learning environment for teachers or a site of crucifixion?.- Practice, Theory, and Person in Life-Long Professional Learning.-New Methods and Perspectives on Teacher Evaluation: Who evaluates what and for which purposes? Part 2: Knowledge Construction and Learning to Teach.- Analyzing Teacher Knowledge in its Interactional Positioning. Reconstructing Knowledge-in-Action: Learning from the authority of experience as a first-year teacher.- Revisiting Teaching Archetypes: Re-conceptualising student teachers' lay theories and identities.- Developing Science Teachers' Knowledge on Models and Modelling.- It's about Time: Issues of time in knowledge construction for preservice and practising teachers in school context.- Part 3: Perspectives on Teachers' Personal and Professional Lives.- The Authentic Teacher.- The Impact of Program Adoption on Teachers' Professional Lives.- Comprehensive Development of Teachers Based on In-depth Portraits of Teacher Growth.- Reconstructing Teacher Identity through Efficacy for Community Engagement.- The Dichotomy between Large-Scale Reform Rhetoric and the Perceptions of School-based Practitioners.- Part 4: Teachers' Workplace as Context for Learning.- Learning from Interpreted' Work Contexts: Planned educational change and teacher development.- What Do We Mean by Career-Long Professional Growth and how Can We Get It?- Resiliency, Resistance and Persistence to Be an Urban Teacher: Creating standards that respond to the context of knowledge construction and learning to teach about teaching.- Design and Methodological Issues Related to Research on Partnerships between Teacher