The Practice of Teachers' Professional Development : A Cultural-Historical Approach.

Intro -- The Practice of Teachers'Professional Development: A Cultural-Historical Approach -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Cultural-Historical Theory and the Vygotskian Project -- 2. Setting the Scene -- 3. The PLZ at Banksia Bay -- 4. Representing the Practice of Professional Development -- 5. Co-teaching with Sia -- 6. Developing Situated Conscious Awareness -- 7. WITHIN Practice PD -- Appendices -- References -- Index.

This book uses Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory to provide a unique theorisation of teachers' professional development as a practice. A practice can be described as the socially structured actions set up to produce a product or service aimed at meeting a collective human need. In this case, collaborative, interventionist work with teachers in two different Australian primary schools sought to simultaneously identify, understand and develop the necessary conditions for supporting the teachers' development as professionals.

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