This longitudinal study investigated reciprocal associations among various professional identity tensions and Dutch primary student teachers’ teacher identity. Students (N = 201, 82.9% female) completed the professional identity tensions scale and the teacher identity measurement scale across three waves. Random intercept cross-lagged panel models showed that five out of nine investigated professional identity tensions were negatively associated with teacher identity at the inter-individual level. At the intra-individual level, no significant cross-lagged relationships were detected. Our findings imply that the development of professional identity tensions and teacher identity are not automatically interrelated and should, therefore, be both explicitly addressed in teacher education.
Professional development of teacher educators is an important issue. In order to be able to teach the teachers of the future, teacher educators have to keep their own knowledge and skills 'future proof'. When it comes to professional development, very often people think of 'attending courses'. But attending courses to keep up knowledge and/or skills, is only a small aspect of the broad range of possible activities to fill in ones professional development. A lot of professional development takes place at work, the so-called workplace-learning or informal learning. In this study we look at the professional development of teacher educators through informal learning. Often forms of informal learning are not recognized by the learner, because they are so integrated with work. In this study the goal is to stimulate awareness of informal learning processes by teacher educators. Teacher educators use a logbook and report daily, weekly or once in three weeks what they have learned. After a three-week period they analyse their logbooks by looking at 'what is learned, 'how is learned', with or from who is learned'. This study has two types of outcomes: (1) awareness of the informal learning processes of the participating teacher educators themselves and (2) insights into the processes of stimulating awareness of informal learning processes. The study is in progress (march 2012) and we will present our findings at the conference in Antwerp.
Sociocultural and dialogic theories of education have identified the need to integrate both pedagogical content and language knowledge into teachers’ professional development to promote effective interaction with students about subject content. In this intervention study, a meta-perspective on language was developed to understand how experienced teacher educators (N = 29) conceptualize ongoing language development in professional learning and teaching (referred to as language-developing learning in this study) as part of their pedagogical content knowledge. The data were analysed using content analysis. Language-developing learning was mainly conceived as teacher-oriented professional development. In this process, the language aspect was regarded not only as a tool that applies regulatory and explanatory language but also as a target that connects academic knowledge and interpersonally oriented language. The results increase our awareness of teacher educators’ practical knowledge of academic and interpersonal language in specific disciplinary contexts of teacher professional development in higher education.
The Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) is the first European partnership for building and improving a collaborative relationship between education and industry with regard to skills development in the fields of digital, green, and social skills. The NTG Alliance will provide employees, employers, entrepreneurs, teachers, trainers and students with a set of core modules in digital, green and social skills.Project Scope:a) To establish a Blueprint Strategy for Sectoral Skills Development in Tourism to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets.b) To define a scalable mechanism and model for sustainable and digital curricula between the industry and education providers at regional, national and European level.c) To create transformative cooperation in five key tourism sub-sectors: hospitality, food and beverage operations, travel agencies and tour operators, visitor attractions and destination management.d) To develop, deliver and test Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Skills Products for professionals, trainers, students, university tourism departments, local authorities, companies to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets
Voor de kwaliteit van het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs is het belangrijk dat docenten zich continu blijven ontwikkelen. Welke activiteiten ondernemen mbo-docenten om zich te professionaliseren en wat is de doorwerking daarvan op hun denken en/of doen? In dit promotieonderzoek verzamelen we inzichten hierover.Doel We willen inzicht krijgen in de professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten, de activiteiten die zij ondernemen om te professionaliseren en de samenhang tussen deze activiteiten en hun professionele ontwikkeling. Onder professionele ontwikkeling verstaan we het proces van activiteiten dat leidt tot verandering in denken en/of doen. We richten ons op: Formele en informele professionaliseringsactiviteiten en hun kenmerken; De doorwerking van deze professionaliseringsactiviteiten op denken en/of doen; Inzicht in beroepskennis van mbo-docenten en de ontwikkeling daarvan; Onderzoek naar de samenhang tussen professionele ontwikkeling en professionaliseringsactiviteiten. Resultaten Dit onderzoek loopt. Na afloop vind je hier een samenvatting van de resultaten. De verwachte opbrengsten resulteren in: Wetenschappelijke opbrengsten: vier artikelen, presentaties op conferenties en proefschrift. Praktijkgerichte opbrengsten: publicaties, workshops, en presentaties voor betrokkenen uit het mbo-onderwijs. Behaalde resultaten Onderzoeksplan 'Professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten', 2017. Presentatie ‘Professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten: Tijdens koffiepraat of een formele cursus?’ tijdens de mbo-onderzoeksdag in Rotterdam, november 2017 Posterpresentatie ‘Professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten: Tijdens koffiepraat of een formele cursus?’ tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen in Nijmegen, juni 2018. Presentatie ‘Onderzoek naar kennisontwikkeling m.b.v. Concept maps’ tijdens de mbo-onderzoeksdag in Hengelo, november 2019. Discussietafel ‘Longitudinaal onderzoek naar professionalisering van mbo-docenten; ontwikkelen van de analyse-aanpak van data uit verschillende bronnen. Tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen in Hasselt, Belgie, juni 2022. Posterpresentatie ‘VET teachers’ professional development; a study on the impact of formal and informal activities' tijdens de EarliSIG11 conferentie in Oldenburg, Duitsland, juni 2022. Verwachte resultaten kunnen helpen bij het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van professionaliseringsbeleid en -activiteiten in het mbo. Looptijd 01 september 2017 - 01 september 2024 Aanpak Dit promotieonderzoek betreft een samenwerking tussen de OU en het lectoraat Beroepsonderwijs. De promotor vanuit de OU is prof. dr. Elly de Bruijn (ook lector Beroepsonderwijs), en de co-promotor vanuit het lectoraat Beroepsonderwijs is dr. Maaike Koopman. Om zicht te krijgen op formele- en informele professionaliserings-activiteiten en professionele ontwikkeling van mbo-docenten, voeren we een longitudinaal onderzoek (2,5 jaar) uit, waarbij docenten aan de hand van Learner Reports en interviews bevraagd worden over hun ondernomen professionaliseringsactiviteiten en de doorwerking daarvan op hun denken en/of doen. Om de ontwikkeling van beroepskennis van docenten in kaart te brengen analyseren we de door hen gemaakte concept maps en interviewen we hen hierover. Om zicht te krijgen op de samenhang tussen professionele ontwikkeling en professionaliseringsactiviteiten wordt een case studie uitgevoerd.
