- Title
- The impact of complex social processes, observation and reflective thinking on teacher learning and practice
- Creator
- McGraw, Amanda
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/63993
- Identifier
- vital:2638
- Abstract
- In an educational climate sharply focused on school improvement, a large Australian multi-campus secondary college has developed a formal and ongoing partnership with the School of Education at their regional university. This paper examines one of the initiatives they developed together; an approach aptly called Collaborative Learning Partnerships that aims to enable teachers to learn more deeply in the context of their work through critical reflection, self-analysis, collaborative planning processes, substantive conversation and the testing of new ideas and approaches. The initial concept was inspired by the growing body of research that indicates that teachers make the fundamental difference to students' learning. If teacher learning became a real priority in the college it was felt that students'; learning would subsequently be enhanced. How then could the classroom, the space where teachers spend most of their working time, be used as a context in which teachers too could learn deeply about their role and the complexity of their work? This paper points to the influence of complex social processes that are at play when teachers work together in this way and to the understandings about learning itself that are surfaced through such processes.
- Publisher
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore :
- Relation
- Paper presented at NIE International Conference 2005: Redesigning Pedagogy: Research, Policy, Practice, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore : 30th May - 1st June 2005
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Secondary education; University school cooperation; Partnerships in education; Teacher learning; Teacher development; Cooperative education; Australia
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