Section archive - Professional Development

This study presented a survey which examines Greek teachers’ satisfaction with the implementation of the European Pedagogical Information and Communication Technology License (EPICT) pilot course. The results demonstrated that course content, facilitators’ support, and collaboration among facilitators and teachers and among teachers themselves had a positive impact on teachers’ satisfaction.

The current paper investigates the effects of continuing professional development (CPD) on teachers' and pupils' experiences of learning and teaching science in primary classrooms. The data indicated differences in participating teachers' views of the purposes of CPD which were reflected in their ideal and real views of effective science teaching. As a result, reconciliation of ideal and real views of effective science teaching, identification of potential constraints and development of strategies for overcoming constraints in context are suggested as useful starting points for CPD.

In this article, the authors investigate the heuristic potential in the image of the teacher‐as‐stranger. The authors also use this image as a frame for reflecting on teacher change and growth. This research provides concepts with which to describe the educational potential in the ‘strangeness’ experienced by all teachers.

The purpose of this study is to highlight the dialogic role of storytelling in supporting the construction of lecturers' professional knowledge. In a professional development project, 12 English language lecturers created digital stories about their experiences of professional development. Five dialogic processes were identified: connecting, echoing, developing, questioning and constructing. Excerpts of stories are used to demonstrate how lecturers construct professional knowledge through storytelling.