Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap

by Susan Groundwater-Smith and Nicole Mockler

Book Overview

Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result.

The authors contend that education policy, under pressure from a number of quarters, is retreating into a standardized, audited, and backward-looking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048181232
• ISBN13: 9789048181230
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"