Teaching: Professionalization, Development and Leadership: Festschrift for Professor Eric Hoyle

✍ Scribed by David Johnson, Dr. Rupert Maclean (auth.), David Johnson, Dr. Rupert Maclean (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The world-wide reform movement has now been in process for thirty years and it is therefore perhaps an appropriate point to consider its implications for the work of teachers thus far and to ponder on the future. It would be widely agreed that the reform movement in general, and in relation to teachers’ work in particular, has brought advantages and disadvantages. It has stimulated teacher development and increased the accountability of teachers to clients – including the state as client. On the other hand, it has led to the intensification of teachers’ work and to the deprofessionalisation as well as professionalisation of teachers. Moreover, it has increased the power of managerialism over the influence of professionalism.

This book addresses these issues from different perspectives and in relation to different contexts. It also considers possible solutions to two problems in particular: how to achieve accountability without intensification, and how to ensure that school management and leadership functions to support and enhance teachers as professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Hoyle: Ambiguity, Serendipity, and Playfulness....Pages 3-8
The Predicament of the Teaching Profession and the Revival of Professional Authority: A Parsonian Perspective....Pages 11-24
Under ‘Constant Bombardment’: Work Intensification and the Teachers' Role....Pages 25-43
Teacher Professionalization in Hong Kong: Historical Perspectives....Pages 45-65
Teacher Professional Identity Under Conditions of Constraint....Pages 67-81
Does the Teaching Profession Still Need Universities?....Pages 85-97
Professional Development for School Improvement: Are Changing Balances of Control Leading to the Growth of a New Professionalism?....Pages 99-117
Teacher Professionalism and Teacher Education in Hong Kong....Pages 119-138
The Enablement of Teachers in the Developing World: Comparative Policy Perspectives....Pages 139-155
Professional Learning Communities and Teachers' Professional Development....Pages 159-179
Towards Effective Management of a Reformed Teaching Profession....Pages 181-198
Organization and Leadership in Education: Changing Direction....Pages 199-213
The Development of Educational Leaders in Malaysia: The Creation of a Professional Community....Pages 215-232
Professional Freedom: A Personal Perspective....Pages 235-247
From Loose to Tight and Tight to Loose: How Old Concepts Provide New Insights....Pages 249-254
The Place of Theory in the Professional Training of Teachers....Pages 255-262
Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Roles of Teachers....Pages 263-270
The Role of the Private Sector in Higher Education in Malaysia....Pages 271-282
Changing Conceptions of Teaching as a Profession: Personal Reflections....Pages 285-304
Back Matter....Pages 305-317

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Learning & Instruction