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Professional Development and Institutional Needs book cover

1st Edition

Professional Development and Institutional Needs

By Gillian Trorey, Cedric Cullingford Copyright 2002
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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The tension between institutional needs and those of the individual has rarely been higher. Increasing demands on institutions to deliver set targets and value for money whilst adhering to set expectations and external constraints has led to an erosion of the notion of staff development. This book looks at how the conflict between the two outlooks emerges and what can be done to overcome it.... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Meeting the needs of the individual and the institution, Gillian Trorey; Performance management and control of the professions, Richard Pring; The individual and the institutional: balancing professional development needs within further education, Rachel Brooks; Revisiting the purposes of continuing professional development, Christopher Day; Career dynamics in further and higher education, Julia Corkindale and Gillian Trorey; Educational change and teacher development, Catherine Scott and Steve Dinham; Professionals or prisoners? the competency-based approach to professional development, Ros Ollin; School needs, teachers' personal needs and the set agenda: conflict and challenges, Steve Belbin and Helen Swift; Complexity, creativity and personal development in headship, Adrian Raynor; The impact of information on individuals and organizations, Cedric Cullingford and Helen Swift; Whole school development policies: a case study, Christopher Greenfield and Cedric Cullingford; Leadership for sustainable development education, John Blewitt; Institutional development and professional needs: some reflections, Cedric Cullingford; Index.

Biography

Gillian Trorey, Head of Staff Development in the School of Education and Professional Development, and member of the Staff Development Group of the University of Huddersfield. UK. Contributes to professional development programmes for teachers in further and higher education and the taught doctorate in education. Previously eco-edited 'Environmental issues in Education' (as Gill Harris, with C.Blackwell, Ashgate, 1996). Cedric Cullingford, Professor of Education, University of Huddersfield. UK. Has produced over 25 books, most recent are 'How children learn to read' (Kogan Page), Prejudice: from individual identity to nationalism in young people (Kogan Page), 'An Inspector Calls: Ofsted and its effect on school standards (Kogan page) 'The Human experience: the early years' (Ashgate)

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