scholarly journals Percentage of lower secondary teachers who participated in professional development activities (2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Averill ◽  
Fuapepe Rimoni

Values understood to be fundamentally important across Pacific groups are central to New Zealand education policy focussed on enhancing school learning of Pasifika students. To explore teacher perceptions of three of these values (respect, service, leadership), interviews with primary and secondary teachers were collected and analysed and their lessons observed. Findings indicate policy implementation is challenged by a lack of deep understanding of Pasifika values amongst many teachers. Implications include that extensive professional development and urgent recruitment of teachers and school leaders with strong knowledge of Pasifika communities are needed to improve achievement opportunities for Pasifika learners and facilitate policy implementation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2 Jul-Oct) ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Juana María Sancho-Gil ◽  
José Miguel Correa-Gorospe

En este artículo, desde la perspectiva de los nuevos materialismos y empirismos, nos acercamos a algunas formas, modos, momentos y lugares de aprender de docentes de infantil, primaria y secundaria. Lo hacemos, no solo centrándonos en las interacciones con sus contextos, sino desde la noción de las "intra-acciones" para ir más allá de la metafísica del individualismo que subyace a las interpretaciones convencionales de las "interacciones”. Esto nos permite sobrepasar la separación que tiende a realizar la investigación lógico-positivista entre las personas y los objetos del mundo que les rodea, en este caso los contextos de aprendizaje de los docentes, al considerar que están interconectados antes de que la mirada del investigador los separe. Las cartografías de aprendizaje y las narraciones realizadas por los docentes que participaron en la investigación y las conversaciones mantenidas con ellos, nos han permitido identificar las intra-acciones de los espacios, tiempos, condiciones, expectativas, recursos, artefactos, etc., en sus procesos del aprender. Esto nos ha permitido vislumbrar la constitución mutua de organismos enredados y los difuminados límites entre los cuerpos y objetos, considerándolos fenómenos materiales discursivos. Desde una mirada post-cualitativa, situamos este análisis desde la teoría y lo que ésta permite pensar para que, más que ‘obtener resultados’, podamos contribuir a comprender el aprendizaje de los docentes y sus implicaciones para la práctica y la formación inicial y permanente. El artículo finaliza planteando la implicaciones y desafíos de este estudio en la forma de entender el aprender y en la formación del profesorado. This article aimed to approach some forms, modes, moments and places of learning of infant, primary and secondary teachers from the perspective of new materialism and empiricism. We did this, not only by focusing on interactions with their contexts, but also from the notion of "intra-actions" since our purpose was to go beyond the metaphysics of individualism which underlies conventional interpretations of "interactions". This allowed us to overcome the separation that logical-positivist research tends to make between people and objects. This article, therefore, considered that in teacher learning contexts teachers and objects are interconnected before the researcher's gaze separated them. The learning cartographies and narrations provided by the teachers who participated in the research and the conversations held with them allowed us to identify in their learning processes the intra-actions of spaces, times, conditions, expectations, resources, artefacts, etc. This enabled us to glimpse the mutual constitution of entangled organisms and the blurred boundaries between bodies and objects, considering them as discursive material phenomena. From a post-qualitative perspective, we situated this analysis from what the theory allowed us to think so that, rather than 'obtaining results', we contributed to understanding teacher learning and its implications for practice and initial and ongoing training. The article ended by posing implications and challenges regarding the usual understanding of both learning and pre-service and in-service teachers’ professional development.


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