Search for dissertations about: "teacher professional development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the words teacher professional development.

2. 1. Development and Autonomy : Conceptualising teachers’ continuing professional development in different national contexts

   Author : Wieland Wermke; Viveca Lindberg; Tore West; Karin Rönnerman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Teachers continuing professional development; CPD; Teacher autonomy; Teacher professionalism; Comparative education; Germany; Sweden; Didactics; didaktik;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates teachers’ perceptions of continuing professional development (CPD) in Germany and Sweden with a questionnaire study comprising a total of 711 mainly lower secondary teachers. Three conceptual terms are elaborated and explained. READ MORE

4. 2. Professional development in formative assessment : effects on teacher classroom practice and student achievement

   Author : Catarina Andersson; Torulf Palm; Jeremy Hodgen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; formative assessment; mathematics education; professional development; teacher education; student achievement;

   Abstract : The potential of formative assessment, evident in several research reviews, has raised the interest in many countries to invest in reform initiatives to develop its use. However, implementation of formative assessment is not straightforward and there is a lack of knowledge about how to design appropriate professional development. READ MORE

5. 3. Negotiating teacher professionalism : on the symbolic politics of Sweden's teacher unions

   Author : Peter Lilja; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : Boundary work; Institutional theory; Policy analysis; Profession; Professionalism; Professionalization; Professional project; Teacher professionalism; Teacher unions;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to critically investigate and problematize the Swedish Teacher Unions’ use of the concept of professionalism within the political negotiation of how to ascribe meaning and contetnt to the idea of teacher professionalism within contemporary Swedish education debates. Departing from two recent educational reforms – the certification of teachers and the reformation of teacher education – and using theories from the sociology of professions coupled with an institutional approach to the study of organizations this study analyzes how the Teacher Unions construct professional projects in relation to each other as well as in relation to the reforms of the current Ministry of Education. READ MORE

6. 4. Becoming a physics teacher : Disciplinary discourses and the development of professional identity

   Author : Johanna Larsson; John Airey; Eva Lundqvist; Anna Danielsson; Karim Hamza; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; physics teacher education; discourse analysis; professional identity; Physics with specialization in Physics Education; Fysik med inriktning mot fysikens didaktik;

   Abstract : In this Licentiate thesis I examine the system of physics teacher education. Physics teacher education is important because it is one of the main ways to influence how physics is taught in schools. READ MORE

7. 5. To become, or not to become, a primary school mathematics teacher : A study of novice teachers’ professional identity development

   Author : Hanna Palmér; Jeppe Skott; Laura Van Zoest; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Primary school mathematics teacher; Professional identity development; Novice teacher; Ethnographic case study.; Mathematical Education; Matematikdidaktik;

   Abstract : This thesis is about the process of becoming, or not becoming, a primary school mathematics teacher. The aim is to understand and describe the professional identity development of novice primary school mathematics teachers from the perspective of the novice teachers themselves. READ MORE