Browsing by Subject "professional development"

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    Educational development as a field: are we there yet?
    (Taylor & Francis, 2012) Shay, Suellen
    This paper contributes to the critical engagement about educational development and its status as a field. The critique focuses in particular on our knowledge and the nature of our knowledge-building. The paper argues that unless we strengthen our knowledge base we will not emerge as a professional field able to engage rigorously and systematically with the problems of higher education. Drawing on social realist work that builds on the ideas of Basil Bernstein, a framework is offered for conceptualizing knowledge differentiation and the implications of different types of knowledge for knowledge-building. The paper concludes with suggestions on how educational development might strengthen its knowledge-building capacity.
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    TEDI 2 Week 4 - Cultivating Positive Change
    (2019-06-01) Swift, Odette; Kuhn, Tara
    In this video, Odette Swift and Tara Kuhn, happily share three levels of positive change that educators should focus on – personal, professional and systemic. They call on teachers to reflect on their own areas of strengths and weaknesses. They counsel teachers to constantly reflect on their attitudes towards deaf learners and their abilities and provide them with the best learning opportunities because it is their right to receive quality education. Reflecting on these and keeping abreast with what is happening in the area of deaf education internationally, they say, will help teachers think of how they can change or maximise these for the better. This is video lecture 8/8 of week 4 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.