Given the emphasis on transforming professional work through the adoption of enquiry-based and trans-disciplinary approaches to service development, there is an urgent need for those involved in professional education to develop a robust understanding of how changes in practice occur. A more inclusive approach to the analysis of the processes involved across the varied and interrelated contexts in which they occur is thus very timely. In this book, Jenny Reeves sets out to explore the gap between the experience of professional learning as an interactive, dynamic and socially contextualised process, and descriptions that are often individualistic, overly linear and largely context-free. She makes the claim that this disjuncture is the outcome of modes of enquiry that concentrate on limited selections of the available data. Adopting a relational approach to describing practice-based professional development, including graphical means for exploring the spaces produced by the activity, provides a very different picture. It creates a basis for representing the complex movements, relationships and interactions between people and things that occur during professional learning. It also provides a productive approach to describing the exchange and creation of professional knowledge across different contexts over time. By building a picture of the ephemeral spaces and connections that educating activities produce, mapping relational space allows those engaged in professional education to think rather differently about how professional learning and changes in knowledge and practice may be understood, supported and developed.
With the increasing emphasis on continuing professional development for teachers and all educational practitioners, the use of portfolios to plan, chart, and review professional development is now widespread. Drawing directly from their experience of developing portfolios and portfolio-based assessment, and from current research, this book enables the reader to design and plan a portfolio, chart and analyze relevant professional experiences, reflect critically on practice, assess performance against standards and competences frameworks, present evidence of practice and achievements, and plan their continuing professional development. There are also chapter objectives, key questions and tasks in every chapter, which adds to the practical focus of the book.
The story of Snow-white and Rose-red who befriend a wild bear, in truth a handsome young prince under a spell from a wicked dwarf.; Picture fiction for older readers.
This document reflects the views expressed by a range of participants in an online discussion on quality assurance mechanisms for gender training in the European Union (EU) that took place on 18 and 19 September 2013. This was the second online discussion held as part of the study 'Gender training in the European Union: Mapping, research and stakeholders' engagement (2012-13)'. The discussion used the online platform EuroGender (1) that EIGE has developed for its stakeholders. Discussion participants included gender training practitioners, gender training researchers and members of EIGE's Thematic Network for Gender Training. Over 30 people participated actively in the online discussion and an additional 50 followed it. A total of 167 responses were posted, from 16 countries across Europe as well as from the United States (US) and the Caribbean. -- EU Bookshop.
In a world shattered by radiation fallout, teenaged Orion and her climbing partner Dram, in exchange for freedom, mine terrifying tunnels for a precious element that keeps humans safe from radiation poisoning, but disturbing revelations force Orion to question everything she knows.
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