Overview
- Summarizes a wide range of relatively unknown and sometimes poorly accessible studies
- Describes the status-quo and explores reasons for the published results
- Makes research written in German available to the international research community
- Provides suggestions for further research in the context of teacher professional development
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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This book presents a systematic literature review focusing on studies examining teachers’ participation in professional development (PD) within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since 1990. It has identified 81 relevant studies and summarizes the results while answering the following research questions: What are teachers’ self-reported reasons participate in formal PD? What barriers do teachers report that prevent them to participate in formal PD? What individual and context characteristics are associated with teachers’ PD behavior?
Teachers’ PD is considered to be an important part of the teaching profession. It is seen as a tool for constant further development for teachers to adapt to changing standards in schools and classrooms, requirements for students, and personal challenges associated with the daily work in school. However, it is repeatedly claimed that there is no sufficient research with regard to teachers’ participation in formal PD, as well as ofaspects that may influence their PD behavior. In spite of a large number of studies that contribute to this question within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, only a few of them are cited regularly. Since much of this research is published in German, the results are not accessible for international researchers and comparisons between different countries. This comprehensive review makes these result accessible.
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Keywords
- Teachers participation in professional development
- Teacher professional development
- Barriers for professional development
- adult education
- Professional Development (PD)
- Teachers’ learning and behaviour
- PD studies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
- in-service teacher education
- training motivation
- participation in further education
Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teachers' Participation in Professional Development
Book Subtitle: A Systematic Review
Authors: Claudia Krille
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38844-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38843-0Published: 15 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38844-7Published: 14 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 122
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education, International and Comparative Education