TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grimmett,Helen
TI  - The Practice of Teachers' Professional Development: A Cultural-Historical Approach
T2  - Professional Learning Series
SN  - 9789462096103
AV  - L1-991 
U1  - 370.7155 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Rotterdam
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Teachers-In-service training
KW  - Teachers-Training of
KW  - Career development
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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