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Vermeir, Karen; Kelchtermans, Geert – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
Much research on educational innovations treats them as purposeful endeavours, initiated with a clear goal for improvement of practice and eventually evaluating the fidelity of their implementation as well as effectiveness. However, innovative practices in schools can have many sources and their implementation often takes a surprising and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation
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Kelchtermans, Geert; Deketelaere, Ann – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Findings of a longitudinal multiple case-study on early career teachers (following-up, semi-structured interviews at four moments during the first year of teaching) are presented to substantiate and analytically unravel their professional development (encompassing a technical, a moral, a political and an emotional dimension) as resulting from the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Longitudinal Studies, Context Effect
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Rots, Isabel; Kelchtermans, Geert; Aelterman, Antonia – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Reporting on 12 case studies of student teachers, this paper examines how experiences during teacher education affect graduates' decision on job entrance. Interpretative data-analysis reveals that powerful sources of the shift in motivation to enter teaching concern interactions in which the person of the teacher is at stake. These mainly involve…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Motivation, Self Concept, Professional Identity
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Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
During the last two decades teachers in many countries have found themselves facing new demands and changes. In his "intensification thesis" Apple, M.W. [(1986). "Teachers and Texts. A political economy of class and gender relations in educations." London: Routledge] made a powerful attempt to conceptualize and explain these…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Conditions, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Teachers are facing an increasing number of changes in their job context, many of which significantly affect their work lives. This study offers a theoretical understanding of the changes in teachers' working conditions, starting from the intensification thesis. The case study of a Flemish (Belgian) elementary school shows the existence of various…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teaching Conditions, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
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Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert; Loughran, John – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
During the last two decades teachers in many countries have found themselves facing new demands and changes. In his "intensification thesis" Apple made a powerful attempt to conceptualize and explain these changes: the growing economic and management oriented perspective on education leads to intensification of teachers' work, implying deskilling…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Conditions, Educational Environment, Educational Principles