Teacher Professional Development through a School-University Partnership. What Role Does Teacher Identity Play?

Autor/in	Trent, John
Titel	Teacher Professional Development through a School-University Partnership. What Role Does Teacher Identity Play?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 37 (2012) 7, Artikel 8 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Stakeholders; Conflict; Foreign Countries; Professional Development; Partnerships in Education; College School Cooperation; Professional Identity; Interviews; Second Language Instruction; Empowerment; Discourse Analysis; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Konflikt; Ausland; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Diskursanalyse; Hongkong
Abstract	This study examines the continuing professional development of one group of secondary school English language teachers who participated in a school-university partnership in Hong Kong. Grounded in a framework of teacher identity and using in-depth interviews conducted over the entire 12 month period of the partnership, the study explores the teacher's professional development experiences in terms of their negotiation of membership within and across multiple communities. Results suggest that the teachers' experienced professional development through partnership partly as identity conflict, as they negotiated recognition of the competencies they associated with the partnership within the different communities of teachers in which they participated. It is argued that such identity conflict can inhibit the opportunities for professional development that partnerships potentially offer teacher and schools and that a critical understanding of the contribution of partnerships to the professional development of teachers and other stakeholders within and beyond the partnership is necessary. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10