Portrayals of Teacher Development
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian Journal of Education
- Vol. 28 (1) , 45-65
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000494418402800104
Abstract
The paper presents an ideographic research approach that is being developed to describe the career biographies of individual teachers. These ‘portrayals’ were seen as a means for exploring the notion of professional development and the personal and contextual conditions that bear upon it. Interviews, together with a variation on the repertory grid technique, were used with two experienced teachers as the means for constructing their phenomenological life-worlds. Implications for in-service education policies and strategies are drawn from the case studies, and a case is presented for the importance of developing models of teacher development complementary to models of curriculum innovation.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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