1st Edition
Professional Development and School Improvement Science Teachers' Voices in School-Based Reform
Edited By Manfred Lang, Digna Couso, Doris Elster, Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Udo Klinger, Piotr Szybek
Copyright 2007
300 Pages
by
Studien Verlag, Austria
Teachers matter in school development is the premise of Professional Development and School Improvement , a book based on case studies from the European-funded project EUDIST (European Development of Innovative Science Teaching). The authors, from Austria, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden, present their national experiences and results from qualitative studies of educational planning in... Read more
Preface, Part 1: Introduction 1. How to Improve Science Teaching in Europe: Focussing Part 2: Studies about innovation in Science Teacher Education in Four European Countries 2. Austrian science teachers as researchers developing integrated topics in a school-based process 3. Teachers' collaborative reflections about school-based science innovation in Spain 4. Mentoring in Science Teacher Education and Professional Development 5. Knowledge Progression in Teaching: How teacher in Sweden Developed topics for consecutive teaching Part 3: Aspects of European Science Teachers' Innovative Practice: Comparative cross case studies about three themes 6. School Reform and the Role of the Teacher: Workshops as Places for Discourse 7. The Curriculum Workshop between Theory and Practical Enactment 8. Curriculum Innovation and School Development as a Process of Teachers' professional Discourse.
Biography
Manfred Lang is a senior researcher in the Department of Educational Research at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education, Kiel (Germany).
