TEACHER LEARNING FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE by G. J. Hoban, Garry F. Hoban, Andy Hargreaves ( 9780335209538 )

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Title:

TEACHER LEARNING FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
A SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH

By:

G. J. Hoban, Garry F. Hoban, Andy Hargreaves

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£27.99
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ISBN 10:

033520953X

ISBN 13:

9780335209538

Publisher:

OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 July, 2002

Series:

UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Education OUP

Pages:

208

Language:

English & English

Description:

Presents a mindset for teacher learning and educational change. This book discusses the question - 'What conditions will help to establish a framework for long-term teacher learning to support educational change?'

Synopsis:

"How many teachers (including academics) understand the dynamic relationship between learning and teaching? In this highly readable account of teacher learning for educational change, Hoban provides both the theory and the detailed examples for a rich and engaging new perspective on teachers' professional learning. This is essential reading for all who would improve their own teaching or provide meaningful support and leadership for such teachers." - Tom Russell, Professor of Education, Queen's University (Canada) "Hoban pays careful attention to the dynamic interplay between personal, social and situated conditions for learning in his Professional Learning System by valuing extended time frames and learning communities in his quest for real teacher change. But beyond his theory, persuasive arguments and compelling examples is the learning through reflection that he embodies himself in this book. A wonderful read." - J. John Loughran, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia This book presents a new mindset for teacher learning and educational change.When viewed from a conventional mechanistic paradigm, educational change is a linear step-by-step process that is supported by a simplistic approach to teacher learning. Although this approach often produces disappointing results, rarely is an alternative one proposed. What is new in this book is that educational change and teacher learning are viewed from a paradigm based on complexity theory, assuming that change is a nonlinear process that needs to be supported by a framework for long-term teacher learning. The central question of this book, therefore, is 'What conditions will help to establish a framework for long-term teacher learning to support educational change?' To address this question, a systems thinking approach is used to draw together ideas from existing learning perspectives into a new theoretical framework called a Professional Learning System. This framework is not a formula, but a new mindset to help us understand the nonlinear dynamics of educational change and teacher learning.

Illustrations:

references, index

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Imprint:

Open University Press

Returns:

Returnable

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