A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers: From Whispers to Resonance

Teachers have a wealth of untapped wisdom and valuable experience. This book documents an initiative where teachers across different locations collaborated and learned together, showcasing the power of teachers debating, discussing, and learning from each other. It addresses a range of issues that teachers and educators across the world face, including pedagogy, classroom management, school culture, and teacher development. It is an important intervention in the domain of teacher development and will be of great interest to students, researchers, educators, teacher educators, and sociologists of education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 06 February 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Teachers are a treasure trove of untapped wisdom and invaluable experience, and their insights are often overlooked in the realm of educational policy, curriculum development, and textbook selection. Traditionally, teacher development has been driven by school administrators, often in the form of a "mentor teaching the staff of a school." However, what happens when teachers from different locations come together to collaborate and learn from each other? This volume documents a remarkable initiative that was sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought people together online. It showcases the power of teachers debating, discussing, and learning from each other, highlighting the importance of community building and teacher education.

Based on an Indian experience, this book addresses a wide range of issues that teachers and educators across the world face, encompassing pedagogy, classroom management, school culture, and teacher development. It offers a unique story of community building and teacher education, providing key outcomes and insights through their action research projects. This book presents a model of teacher development that can be adopted by interested readers anywhere in the world.

Above all, this volume emphasizes the crying need for teachers to be heard. For far too long, teachers have been mere implementers of decisions taken by policymakers or school management. By fostering networking communities like the one described in this book, the transformation of teachers from whispers to resonance is greatly amplified.

This volume is an important intervention in the domain of teacher development, and it will be of great interest to students, researchers, educators, teacher educators, and sociologists of education. It will also be useful for teacher trainees, academics, policymakers, schoolteachers, curriculum developers, and teacher trainers.

Weight: 657g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032495101