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As curriculum standardization escalates, teachers’ agency in relation to teaching to student diversity takes on increasing importance. This article draws from an international study that investigated the multicultural and antiracist teaching practices of 15 English teachers in two racially diverse schools, one in the United States, the other in Canada. Analysis of in-depth interviews and curriculum-related documents found that teachers’ agency was related to biographical elements of professional preparation, prior experiences with diversity, and generational status. The article reports on data from the United States school and offers recommendations for professional development and teacher preparation. 相似文献
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This article explores whether teachers’ trust in pupils in technical/vocational schools is associated with teachers’ and pupils’ gender. As for the teachers, besides gender, age, socioeconomic origin, and subject taught are considered and, as for the pupils, the gender composition of the school (proportion of girls at school), the socioeconomic context of the school and the grades teachers instruct. Multilevel analyses of data of 391 teachers in a sample of 19 technical/vocational schools demonstrate that initially none of the teacher features relates to teacher trust. Adding gender composition to the model yields an effect of teachers’ gender: Female teachers have less trust in their pupils than male teachers have. Also, teachers’ trust increases with the proportion of girls at school. Finally, a significant interaction effect indicates that male teachers seem to prefer female pupils. 相似文献
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This article focuses on exploring comprehensive school teachers’ professional agency in the context of the most recent school
reforms in Finland (i.e., developing undivided basic education). In this article, the emphasis is on analyzing the premises
on which teachers view themselves and their work in terms of developing their own school, catalyzed by the national school
reform. Teachers’ perceptions and the relation between their perceptions of the development work and their educational backgrounds
were empirically examined by means of essays entitled “Remembering the Future.” Results suggested that both teachers’ perceptions
of undivided basic education and their perceptions of themselves in the development process varied considerably. Further investigation
showed that teachers’ perceptions of the reform and of themselves within the reforms were interrelated. More specifically,
perceiving oneself as an active subject in the development work seemed to promote a holistic and functional perception of
the object of the development. On the basis of the results, it seems that as highly educated professionals, teachers were
very capable of identifying and analyzing what should be changed in schools and/or the school districts. However, a challenge
for the teachers’ active professional agency in educational reforms seems to be the lack of shared and informed assumptions
of how change can be brought about. 相似文献
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This study investigates continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers, with a focus on recurrent participation. Vocational teachers need to be competent as teachers and in relation to their vocational teaching subject. Reformation of Swedish vocational education in order to strengthen the working-life connection imposes demands on teachers to have up-to-date knowledge about the vocations related to their vocational subjects. To support the reform, vocational teachers have been offered to participate in a new national CPD initiative targeting their vocational competence. The study concerns participation in this initiative. Drawing on a socio-cultural perspective, vocational teachers’ CPD implies boundary-crossing between school and working-life. Theory concerning adults’ participation in education is considered relevant to understand conditions for such boundary-crossing, and learning, among vocational teachers. The article specifically investigates patterns in vocational teachers’ recurrent participation, which is expected to clarify the factors influencing further participation in professional development. The strongest predictor of recurrent participation, when adjusting for the influence of other factors, is the type of municipality that the teacher comes from, with low populated municipalities having the lowest likelihood of participation. Furthermore, recurrent participation is more likely by participating teachers from adult education or from privately owned schools, and by male teachers. 相似文献
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This study was conducted to explore the relationships between teachers’ motivation toward web-based professional development, Internet self-efficacy, and beliefs about web-based learning. By gathering questionnaire data from 484 elementary school teachers, this study indicated that the teachers’ Internet self-efficacy and behavioral beliefs about web-based learning were significant predictors for their motivation toward web-based professional development. The teachers with higher Internet self-efficacy and stronger beliefs about the positive consequences of web-based learning tended to express higher motivation toward web-based professional development. 相似文献
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This research study explores teachers’ specific emotions and the reconstruction of teachers’ professional self-understanding during a comprehensive school reform initiative. Through interviews and archival material, this study seeks to examine teachers’ specific emotions during critical incidents that occurred during the period of reform and to explore the reconstruction of their professional self-understanding. The findings illustrate that the teachers experienced fear and intimidation when their professional self-understandings were challenged. However, with the support of a literacy coach and university faculty they reconstructed these self-understandings, leading to improvements in student achievement and their own instructional practices. These positive changes led to emotions of pride and excitement. The study provides recommendations for state and local school administrators and highlights implications for future research. 相似文献
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This paper discusses the findings of a qualitative interpretive study on secondary school teachers’ professional identities and emotional experiences. Teachers’ work is emotionally engaging and personally demanding, yet the caring nature of the teaching role is largely neglected in educational policy and teacher standards. This paper examines the reasons behind the marginalisation of discourses of emotionality and discusses the lived experiences of three teachers. The caring behaviour that teachers exhibit in their work is seen to have professional, performative and philosophical dimensions as individual teachers subjectively negotiate the demands that are placed upon them in different situated contexts. 相似文献
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Achievement goals for teaching and teachers’ reference norms: Relations with instructional practices
This study is connected to recent research that introduced achievement goal theory as a framework for research on teacher motivation. We aimed at investigating teachers’ goals’ indirect effects on their instructional practices through their reference norms. Drawing on a sample of 206 teachers, structural equation modeling revealed that mastery orientation was connected to more adaptive forms of reference norms and instruction, whereas less adaptive patterns were recorded for ability-approach orientation, ability-avoidance orientation, and work avoidance. Thus, school should not only focus on the enhancement of students’ mastery goals but also on fostering teachers’ mastery goals. 相似文献
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Minna Uitto 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2012,28(2):293-301
This article employs a narrative approach in examining the intertwining of the personal and professional in teacher-student relationships. A total of 141 Finnish people of various ages wrote about their teachers; specifically, the article focuses on memories related to their teachers’ personal lives. Such memories illustrate the inevitable presence of teachers’ personal lives in schools and show how teacher-student relationships develop in private contexts during and after the school years. Teacher education should provide tools and means of supporting teachers to consider the personal and professional in teacher-student relationships. Nowadays, social media challenges teachers to reconsider these aspects. 相似文献
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This article aims to investigate teachers’ perception of sources of knowledge in their continuing professional development (CPD). It investigates whether the perceived importance of a source can be related to its trustworthiness. Knowledge sources comprise institutions and colleagues, who produce knowledge for teachers’ development. The issues are examined by analysis of questionnaire studies on teachers’ CPD with a sample size of 711 teachers in Germany and Sweden. The results show that a knowledge source’s trustworthiness is a relevant and significant predictor for its importance in teachers’ CPD. However, the national context in which teachers work also has a considerable influence. 相似文献
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The present study examines teachers’ perceptions of organizational changes in their elementary schools. These changes occurred
following the implementation of a long-term comprehensive school improvement project (CSIP). One hundred and seventy one teachers
who taught in six elementary schools located in two different school districts in Israel responded to a questionnaire both
before and after a period of 3 years during which they participated in a CSIP. The teachers, assisted by six professional
consultants, one in each school, studied cooperative learning as well as new forms of collaborative staff work. The study
addressed two primary research questions: What changes in teachers’ perceptions of their schools’ organizational culture emerged
from teachers’ participation in the project? How were the professional relationships between the schools’ supervisors and
the teachers in the two districts reflected in the teachers’ perception of school organizational changes? Results indicated
that teachers in three schools from one district recorded a significant improvement in their perceptions of their schools’
organizational culture at the end of the project, whereas the teachers from the other district indicated either no change,
or a significant decline in their evaluation of their schools’ organizational culture. A cross-validation of the teachers’
data was performed through a content analysis of 500 reports written over the course of 2 years, submitted by six external
consultants. The analysis yielded four categories: general difficulties to work with the school’s staff, problems implementing
the project, teacher resistance, and cancellations of planned meetings. The analysis provided valuable information as to why
the teachers from the two districts differed in their reactions to the project. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study is to build a conceptual framework of teachers’ practical knowing. Through consideration of interview data from both elementary and secondary school teachers, the common features underlying teachers’ thinking were identified. The empirical findings indicated that teachers shared field-invariant epistemological standards guiding their practical knowledge. Teachers’ professional and moral character were interrelated and could not be separated from each other. In this paper, these two epistemological dimensions in teachers’ reasoning were brought together. The stances of teachers’ professional character and teachers’ moral character have the potential of combining vocational and professional aspects by establishing epistemological standards in teachers’ thinking. 相似文献
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The aim of this study is to investigate teachers’ perceptions of their practice of values education, and to explore their degree of professionalism in this matter. Qualitative interviews with 13 teachers have been conducted and analysed by a comparative analysis. According to their view, values education is (a) most often reactive and unplanned, (b) embedded in everyday school life with a focus on students’ everyday behaviour in school, and (c) partly or mostly unconsciously performed. Furthermore, professional knowledge appears to be missing in the domain of values education among these teachers. 相似文献
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The study done in Slovenia examined grammar and elementary teachers’ perceptions of cooperative learning. The sample consisted of 542 Slovene elementary and grammar school teachers, who teach Slovene. The main question of the research was how teachers assess the value of group learning in comparison to individual forms of learning. From their perceptions, we can draw conclusions about their development, the introduction of group work within lessons and about the encouragement of pupils towards collaborative learning. The main finding of the research is that elementary school teachers place greater importance on group learning than grammar school teachers. In addition, when teachers are grouped according to their years of experience (seniority), there are differences in their assessment of group learning. However, it is not possible to get a linear pattern from the results (e.g. showing that years of experience do or do not contribute to the perception of the importance of group learning), a finding which supports the critical opinion that teachers’ experience depends not only on the quantity (years of experience), but also on the quality of experience. 相似文献
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This study examined how teacher agency shaped professional learning in cross-cultural teaching contexts. Interviews with 14 Chinese language teachers showed that teacher agency varied in different dimensions of professional learning. Social suggestions, power relations, teachers' professional and social positioning and the imposed identity and social roles in the school contexts interacted to shape teacher agency. The findings suggest both creating school cultures and structures that value and share diverse discursive and pedagogical practices and managing teachers' professional identity and self-positioning to enhance teachers' agency to engage in mutual learning and remaking of their work practices. 相似文献
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Examining the Career Choices of Alternatively Licensed Teachers in Urban Schools 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
In order to address the issue of persistent teacher shortages, urban districts increasingly rely on alternatively licensed
teachers who are often viewed as well-suited to work in urban areas because of their greater age, life and work experiences,
and understanding of diverse communities. Yet, research on the retention of these teachers remains inconclusive, with some
notable studies suggesting that alternatively licensed teachers are as likely as their traditionally prepared counterparts
to quit teaching or migrate out of urban school settings. In this study, we explore the process and salient considerations
of five alternatively licensed math and science teachers deciding whether or not to continue teaching in a Midwestern, urban
school district. Whereas previous studies typically examine teacher recruitment and retention issues through a narrow analysis
of labor market incentives and other external inducements, our study situates teachers’ career decisions within a more holistic
narrative that illustrates how individual actions are never determined by any single factor, but rather a web of simultaneous
and sometimes contradictory forces generated by prior expectations and immediate realities that are professional as well as
personal in nature. 相似文献
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The paper explores the issue of teachers’ professional vulnerability using a range of messages from an online teachers’ community on the Chinese mainland. The study reveals how macro changes at policy level impact on teachers’ professional relationships and in turn their professional identities in teacher discussants’ perceptions. Furthermore, the paper argues that the Chinese cultural tradition somehow adds to teachers’ professional vulnerability. While the tradition used to give teachers authority, it imposes burdens on teachers and subjects them to close scrutiny, which consequently make them feel more vulnerable. The paper concludes with critical reflections on its methodology and findings, calling for further research into the issue. 相似文献
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教师到企业锻炼是高职教师培训的重要途径,也是加强校企合作的具体表现。教师到企业锻炼除了学校的一系列保障和监督机制外,教师本人还得根据自己的专业特点和所到企业的实际情况做些锻炼前的准备工作,系统制定出适合自身发展的锻炼计划,提高锻炼效果。 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to explore the kinds of episodes that challenge comprehensive school teachers’ occupational well-being and cause burnout and how teachers perceive the relationship between themselves and their working environment in these episodes. Altogether, a selected group of 68 primary and secondary school teachers were interviewed. The narratives of burdening episodes were identified and analysed from the qualitative data. The results suggested that teachers’ working environment provides multiple contexts for burnout. Sources for teacher burnout varied between the working contexts provided by the single school. Moreover, the results showed that there was heterogeneity in the quality of the teacher-working-environment fit reported by the teachers while facing burdening situations or series of events in their work. 相似文献