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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453182503321

Titolo

Teacher learning and power in the knowledge society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rosemary Clark, D.W. Livingstone and Harry Smaller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam, : Sense Publishers, 2012

ISBN

94-6091-972-3

94-6091-973-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

The knowledge economy and education ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkRosemary

LivingstoneD. W

SmallerHarry

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Teachers - Training of

Professional education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

section A. Comparative perspectives on professionals' work and learning -- section B. Teachers' work and learning -- section C. Implications and applications.

Sommario/riassunto

The rise of knowledge workers has been widely heralded but there has been little research on their actual learning practices. This book provides the first systematic comparative study of the formal and informal learning of different professional groups, with a particular focus on teachers. Drawing on unique large-scale national surveys of working conditions and learning practices in Canada, teachers are compared with doctors and lawyers, nurses, engineers and computer programmers, as well as other professionals. The class positions of professionals (self-employed, employers, managers or employees) and their different collective bargaining and organizational decision-making powers are found to have significant effects on their formal learning and professional development (PD). Teachers’ learning varies according to their professionally-based negotiating and school-based decision-making powers. Two further national surveys of thousands of



Canadian classroom teachers as well as more in-depth case studies offer more insight into the array of teachers’ formal and informal learning activities. Analyses of regular full-time teachers, occasional teachers and new teachers probe their different learning patterns. The international literature on teacher professional development and related government policies is reviewed and major barriers to job-embedded, ongoing professional learning are identified. Promising alternative forms of integrating teachers’ work and their professional learning are illustrated. Teacher empowerment appears to be an effective means to ensure more integrated professional learning as well as to aid fuller realization of knowledge societies and knowledge economies.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910711131703321

Autore

Kirstein Arthur F

Titolo

Test of a prestressed cellular slab / / Arthur F. Kirstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 1957

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

NBS report ; ; 5314

Altri autori (Persone)

KirsteinArthur F

Soggetti

Concrete beams - Compression testing

Concrete slabs - Testing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1957.

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

Title from PDF title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.