The trend of teacher collegiality and professional development in educational restructuring is examined in this paper within the context of growing demands for accountability and productivity. The increased international interest in teacher collegiality through various forms of school-based professional development is viewed as a means of…

A systematic exploration of the nature of teacher evaluation is presented. After a critique of the widespread impositional (or "dominant") mode of teacher evaluation, two alternative forms of teacher evaluation, referred to as "educative," are proposed. These educative teacher evaluation approaches, "horizontal"…

Examined the impact of local school management on teachers' work. Drawing on the narrative biography of a single Australian high school teacher as part of a larger multi-sited ethnography, revealed the level of policy incoherence to be such that most of the worst excesses of accountability and marketization accompanying local school management…

Takes a critical look at who has the legitimate right to engage in supervision and for what valued social purpose, contending that those who are closest to the work are best qualified to form judgments about its quality and worth. Proposes an "educative" model of collaborative supervision to encourage self-awareness and self-determination among…

Asserts that teachers must form collaborative alliances and nonevaluative dialogue to regain control over their own professional development. The empowering potential of Robert Goldhammer's and Morris Cogan's original conceptions of clinical supervision have been distorted through the process of redefinition by vested interests to a form of…