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Challenging the Discourse of Professional development

Challenging the Discourse of Professional development. Walter Humes University of Stirling. Four Challenges. Political Philosophical Pedagogical Professional. Discourse Analysis. Where has the discourse come from? Why has it come to prominence now? What is its knowledge base?

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Challenging the Discourse of Professional development

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  1. Challenging the Discourse of Professional development Walter Humes University of Stirling

  2. Four Challenges • Political • Philosophical • Pedagogical • Professional

  3. Discourse Analysis • Where has the discourse come from? • Why has it come to prominence now? • What is its knowledge base? • How does it shape the thinking and practice of professionals? • Whose interests does it really serve?

  4. The Changing Discourse of Professional Development • Reflection • Competences • Communities of enquiry • Action research • Leadership skills • Teacher identity

  5. Curriculum for Excellence • Successful learners • Confident individuals • Effective contributors • Responsible citizens

  6. Mark Priestley and Walter Humes (2010) • ‘The development of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence: amnesia and déjà vu’, Oxford Review of Education 36 (3), 345-361.

  7. The Dangers of Pedagogical Fundamentalism • ‘Active’ learning • Social constructivism • Collegiality

  8. Edward Said • ‘Proper professional behaviour [now consists of] not rocking the boat, not straying outside the accepted paradigms or limits, making yourself marketable and above all presentable, hence uncontroversial and unpolitical and “objective”.’

  9. Gordon Kirk • ‘Perhaps the hallmark of the professional teacher is that he or she holds open the possibility of enhanced performance, not as a response to political diktat, not as a form of compliance, not in fulfilment of contractual requirement, but as the expression of an inner professional commitment to improved practice.’

  10. Contact • walter.humes@stir.ac.uk

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