A Learning Profession? : Teachers and their Professional Development in England and Wales 1920-2000 / by Wendy Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Wendy, author.

Series:

Studies in Professional Life and Work ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ground-breaking book uncovers a hidden history of the professional develop¬ment of serving teachers. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Wendy Robinson reveals an op¬timistic and liberal age of high class conferences in the 1920s and 1930s, in Lon¬don hotels and Oxford colleges, free from government control, where teachers from across the country and abroad, gathered for professional, intellectual and cultural ‘refreshment’. The status attached to these occasions was signified by the celebrities who graced them, including royalty, public intellectuals, educational practitioners and politicians. Professor Robinson then shows how post-war training became more instrumental, taken over by the Ministry of Education with its centrally-prescribed advanced courses, and, from 1970, by Local Education Authorities’ invention of ap¬parently democratic Teachers’ Centres. This analysis is complemented by face-to-face interviews with teachers and other practitioners once active in professional development. Fascinating, detailed inter¬views brilliantly capture teachers’ lived experience of professional development and its influence on their teaching, career development and professional identity. Fresh and original, lucidly written by one of the leading historians of education in Britain, A Learning Profession? is essential and engaging reading for those inter¬ested in the development of a teaching profession.

Contents:

Prelimachers’ Einary Material

Introduction: Aims, Context and Methodology

National Policy Mapping

The Vacation Course 1920–1940

Special Advanced Courses for Teachers 1945–1960

The Teachers’ Centre 1960–1990

Texperiences of Professional Development

Evaluating Impact: Personal and Professional Perspectives

Professional Development and Perceptions of Teacher Professional Identity

Conclusion

Select Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789462095724

9462095728

OCLC:

882257826