Understanding Teacher Development

This collection of interpretations of teacher development begins from a humanistic and critical starting point. It is humanistic in that its prime purpose is to understand teacher development, not to prescribe ways of managing it. It is critical in that it raises questions about the ways our educational systems hinder the development of teachers deskilling, deprofessionalizing and disempowering them. Chapters cover several ways in which it may be facilitated. It is aimed at teachers, trainee teachers and teacher trainers. The contributors are: Philip Jackson (University of Chicago), William R. Louden (Ministry of Education, Western Australia), Christopher Clark (University of Michigan), Antoinette Oberg (University of Victoria, Canada), Susan Underwood (University of Victoria, Canada), Dennis Thiessen (University of Toronto), Ivor Goodson (University of Western Ontario), Michael Huberman (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Michael Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Susan Jungek (National College of Education), Heather-Jane Robertson (Canadian Teachers' Federation)