Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance - Susan Groundwater-Smith

PART I: Present, past and future. 1. Introduction: Current Problematics in Teacher Professional Learning. 2. How Did we Get Here? Historical Perspectives on Inquiry-based Professional Learning. 3. Developing courage. PART II: Professional Knowledge Building: Tenets and tools. 4. Mode 3 Knowledge: What it is and why we need it. 5. Inquiry as a framework for professional learning: Interrupting the dominant discourse. 6. Reclaiming Quality. PART III: Tensions, contradictions, competing agendas,- 7. What's at stake and what's at risk? 8. Who pays the piper? Agendas, Priorities and Accountabilities. 9. What Learning Community? A Knotty Problem. PART IV: Closing the gap,- 10. Case Study: The Higher Degree. 11. The Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools. 12. Closing the Gap - Conclusion.

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