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Action learning in schools : reframing teachers' professional learning and development / Peter Aubusson, Robyn Ewing and Garry Hoban.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aubusson, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teachers--In-service training.
- Teachers.
- Active learning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Teaching is becoming increasingly complex in the 21st Century, creating a need for more sophisticated frameworks to support teachers' professional learning. Action learning is one such framework and has been used for workplace learning in business settings for many years. It is now becoming increasingly popular in school and university settings, but it is often misunderstood. This book clarifies what action learning is, linking key concepts to illustrate that it is not merely a process, but a dynamic interaction between professional learning, communities, leadership and change. T
- Contents:
- Cover; Action Learning in Schools: Reframing teachers' professional learning and development; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1 Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie: Introduction; Chapter 2 Positioning action learning; Chapter 3 Enabling action learning: getting started; Chapter 4 The dynamics of action learning; Chapter 5 Community; Chapter 6 Facilitating action learning: the academic partner's role; Chapter 7 Gathering and learning from evidence; Chapter 8 Ethical action learning; Chapter 9 Sustaining professional learning through action learning
- Chapter 10 Epilogue: extending action learningGlossary; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-61696-9
- 1-283-59088-3
- 9786613903334
- 0-203-53733-5
- 1-136-61697-7
- 9780203537336
- OCLC:
- 810082849
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