Union Learning Representatives: Facilitating Professional Development for Scottish Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Alexandrou, Alex; O'Brien, Jim
Titel	Union Learning Representatives: Facilitating Professional Development for Scottish Teachers
Quelle	In: International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 11 (2007), Artikel 19 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1206-9620
Schlagwörter	Lifelong Learning; Unions; Foreign Countries; Professional Development; Professional Associations; Teaching (Occupation); Teacher Salaries; Educational Policy; Workplace Learning; Partnerships in Education; Professional Identity; Case Studies; Questionnaires; Context Effect; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Ausland; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fragebogen
Abstract	In the United Kingdom, teachers' professional associations and labor organizations, notably in the form of trade unions have historically been involved in education and training in the workplace. Recently, in the United Kingdom this activity has gained greater credence and importance due to the emergence of trade union learning representatives who are a new category of unpaid lay representation with statutory rights who operate within the workplace. They are part of the present UK government's drive to expand and improve lifelong learning and continuing professional development (CPD) in order to create the new learning society within the UK. In Scotland, a constituent part of the UK with its own distinctive education system, the McCrone Report (2000), particularly its CPD recommendations and the subsequent 21st Century Agreement (Scottish Executive Education Department [SEED], 2001) has added impetus to the role of these learning representatives within the Scottish teaching profession. This article examines how the Educational Institute of Scotland, a professional trade union, which represents the overwhelming majority of teachers in Scotland, has launched a learning representatives initiative with the aim that the representatives work to advise, broker, and facilitate improved CPD opportunities for their colleagues, particularly in relation to Chartered Teacher status (O'Brien & Hunt, 2005). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10