TY - JOUR
T1 - An educational practices framework
T2 - the potential for empowerment of the teaching profession
AU - Lowrie, Thomas
N1 - Includes bibliographical references.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper outlines new educational policy initiatives that have been recently introduced to Australian schooling contexts and describes the challenges of providing rich and empowering professional development opportunities for classroom teachers and educational leaders in an era of heightened accountability and change. A framework for large-scale professional learning is proposed; one that adopts a theoretical lens associated with practice architectures, situated within community- and individual-focused professional learning experiences. The theoretical component of the model has been utilised effectively in a number of countries, while the personalised learning component is drawn from an evidence-based project that established a national learning framework.
AB - This paper outlines new educational policy initiatives that have been recently introduced to Australian schooling contexts and describes the challenges of providing rich and empowering professional development opportunities for classroom teachers and educational leaders in an era of heightened accountability and change. A framework for large-scale professional learning is proposed; one that adopts a theoretical lens associated with practice architectures, situated within community- and individual-focused professional learning experiences. The theoretical component of the model has been utilised effectively in a number of countries, while the personalised learning component is drawn from an evidence-based project that established a national learning framework.
KW - Policy development
KW - Professional development
KW - Professional practice
U2 - 10.1080/02607476.2013.864016
DO - 10.1080/02607476.2013.864016
M3 - Article
VL - 40
SP - 34
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Education for Teaching: international research and pedagogy
JF - Journal of Education for Teaching: international research and pedagogy
SN - 0260-7476
IS - 1
ER -