This paper examines the current shape of teacher professional learning, or in-service
teacher education, in Australia. Increasingly, teacher professional learning is positioned as …

One of the key tenets of the global education reform movement, professional standards for
teachers have reshaped different aspects of teachers' work and learning in many contexts …

In response to wide ranging social and political conditions a variety of school reform and
teacher professional development activities have been implemented across Australia with …

The argument in this article derives from a comparative case study of two pre-service
teacher education programmes in England and in Canada. Using Goodson and Hargreaves' …

In the past decade, notions of teacher professionalism have been associated with increased
accountability, standards, performance assessments, and teacher testing, and impacted by …

Ideas about what makes a good teacher are important in thinking about educational reform,
and have come into focus recently. These ideas are contested and open to change. The first …

Contemporary educational reform–including both marketisation and centralisation, but also
a new emphasis on the involvement of a wider range of stakeholders–has resulted in a …

Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in
which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and …

This study is an empirical account of the professional development (PD) practices that
constituted part of the work of a group of teachers and school-based administrators working …

This paper focuses on issues of the professional identity of teachers in Australia under
conditions of significant change in government policy and educational restructuring. Two …