Individual, school, and national factors impacting teachers' workplace learning : discourses of informal learning in North America and Lithuania /: discourses of informal learning in North America and Lithuania. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elena Jurasaite-O'Keefe.
• Authors: Jurasaite-O'Keefe, Elena
• Contents: Part I: Multiple Layers of Workplace Learning 1. The Complexity of Teacher Learning 2. Researching Informal Teacher Learning 3. Portraits of Teachers Part II: Teachers as Learners 4. Dispositions: Opportunistic—Proactive Learners’ Continuum 5. Sources of Learning: Individual—Social Leaners’ Continuum 6. Reactions to Dilemmas: Emotional—Cognitive Learners’ Continuum 7. Orientation to Problems for Learning: Self—Teaching-Oriented Problems 8. Engagement in Learning Process: Spontaneous—Deliberate Part III: School Cultures as Contexts for Informal Workplace Learning 9. A Midwestern Elementary School in the USA 10. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Russian Language 11. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Lithuanian Language Part IV: National Educational Cultures and Teacher Informal Workplace Learning 12. Centralization versus decentralization in educational systems 13. Teaching children versus teaching curriculum 14. Market-driven structure of professional development and evaluation versus structures motivating teachers’ professional growth 15. Teacher identities in a culture that is relatively stable versus a culture that has undergone a radical change 16. Final Thoughts
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 370.711; Teachers -- In-service training -- North America; Teachers -- In-service training -- Lithuania; Teachers -- Language; Discourse analysis
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000422221; 9781000421453; 9780367816605
• Related ISBNs: 9780367418564
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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