Teachers as Learners - Critical Discourse on Challenges and Opportunities
Critical Discourse on Challenges and Opportunities
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-962-8093-55-7 (ISBN)
Description
In movements of educational reform across the world, educators are forging new roles, identities and relationships. Leadership is of course vital, but needs to be rooted in a capacity for learning. This volume responds to some of the tensions and paradoxes typically associated with educational reform, presenting a critical discourse on teachers as learners.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
Hong Kong
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-962-8093-55-7 (9789628093557)
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Ora Kwo is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. As a university academic who has been involved in teacher education for three decades, she specializes in research on professional development and on the processes of learning to teach. In 1997 she was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong in recognition of her excellence in teaching. Since then, her research interests have extended to the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, and to the building of learning communities. In 1999-2000 she held a Universitas 21 Fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Since 2001, she has been an Honorary Professor at Hangzhou Normal University in China, where she initiated the building of a learning community under the theme, "Teachers and Teacher Education in Action Learning" (TATEAL).