Professional Development in Education

The research of teacher training in vocational environments is aimed at the development of abilities and knowledge using collaborative methods like enterprise-school collaboration. This research delves into how such collaborations influence vocational teacher readiness and professional growth. It lo…

This paper contributes to the knowledge on supportive mentoring practices in student teachers’ practicum by exploring the ways that mentoring conversations structured around a specific observational tool built on the theoretical concepts of professional noticing and collaborative reflection might su…

Furnishing novice school leaders with the knowledge and skills they require to be successful in practice has proved difficult. This paper describes and analyses an attempt to link learning and school leading practices in their education: a three-year learning activity within the Swedish National Sch…

The environment in which Vocational Education and Training (VET) schools operate changes rapidly due to more varied student populations, personalised, blended and work-based learning paths, developments in digitalisation, industry, and labour markets. These changes and policy pressures to ensure VET…

This article explores how personal professional theories (PPTs) develop. PPT development of nine junior accountants and nine novice teachers was monitored by repeated measurements over a period of 1.5 years, from the last year of vocational education until the second year of their professional caree…

At a time of increasing public and government focus on the quality of teacher education, little is known about the professional development needs of those who teach teachers in further education (FE). Yet they are crucial players. Efforts are intensifying across a significant number of countries to …

This paper explores the complex processes involved in the self-construction of academic identity in a UK School of Education. Building on seminal literature in this field and drawing on the research of four academics, it begins by discussing teacher educators' varying perceptions of the need to re-c…

This article addresses key issues in pre-service teachers' professional learning. The argument explores pre-service teachers' learning and practice, which is both informed by technology and which uses technologically enhanced practices in classrooms as learning and teaching strategies. The article i…

Professional development of teachers has become an essential condition in today's knowledge-based society to sustain the quality of teaching. Therefore, the Dutch government promotes this now professional development. As a result, Professional Development Plans (PDPs) are now increasingly used to st…

This article will map the process of collaborative professional enquiry in an attempt to make sense of the structural elements evident in creating a 'Community of Collaborative Professional Enquiry' (CCPE). At the heart of each CCPE examined was a collaborative, improvement-focused intervention that…