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Tiina Korhonen; Sorella Karme; Johanna Airaksinen; Noora Laakso; Laura Salo – Cogent Education, 2024
In this study, we examined educational change and teachers' continuous learning from the perspective of teachers' transformative agency within the context of digitalization. We also examined the transformative needs of teachers participating in a specialization program related to digitalization and educational change, as well as experiences and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Teacher Education
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Ridgway, Rosie – Cogent Education, 2023
Education policy in recent years has dramatically repositioned the role and status of teachers, trainee teachers and teacher education in the UK and beyond. This paper focuses specifically on education policy in England; however, it has broader significance for those interested in education and teacher education in international policy contexts.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy, Computational Linguistics, Educational Change
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Yu-Chen Lin – Cogent Education, 2024
Contemporary educational reform discourses in Taiwan call for the modernization of education to meet the needs of society of the 21st century. The principles and rules of 'reason' that historically order educational discourses can't be taken for granted. This article uses Popkewitz's notion of alchemy to think about the principles. The notions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Teacher Role
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Lo, Noble Po Kan; To, Bryan Ka Ho – Cogent Education, 2023
The disruptive effects of this pandemic are predicted to redefine the priorities of continuing professional development (CPD) in the educational sector and reconstruct the identity and role of educators in future educational systems. Accordingly, the primary aim of the proposed research is to critically assess the factors shaping post-COVID-19…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Razzak, Nina Lutfi Abdul – Cogent Education, 2015
Senior teachers in Bahraini public schools are a part of the Kingdom's national educational reform initiatives underway. The main role they play is that of leading and managing a group or cluster of teachers who teach the same subject matter at the same grade level. They are therefore more or less like "department heads". With advances…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Teacher Role, Instructional Leadership
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Melville, Wayne; Hardy, Ian; Weinburgh, Molly; Bartley, Anthony – Cogent Education, 2014
This article considers the roles of school leaders, a departmental-level leader and a teacher in implementing a reform within a school, and the nature of the relations between the groups and individuals that attended this process. Drawing upon Bourdieu's "thinking tools", the article analyses the nature of the leadership practices…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Role, Leadership Styles, Secondary Schools