Educating the Refective Professional in Teacher Education: Professional Learning and in Teaching and in Other Professions

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The aim of this dissertation is to promote a better understanding of the way professionals learn while performing their daily work activities and what practices can be extracted from such realm in order to be implemented in the teaching profession. This dissertation takes up “critical realism” as an underlying philosophy and sees professional learning as an unintended result of the interaction between three complex systems namely the organization, the community and the individual. The division into these three levels was necessary in order to find a reasonable way of “comparing” professions bearing different goals and nature. Data gathering involved semi-structured interviews subsequently coded with N-Vivo and Quirkos software. This study followed the work of 25 professionals allocated in five different fields: a) Architecture, b) Information Technology, c) Human Resources, d) Educational Researchers, e) Vocational Education and Training (VET) Teachers. All the participants in this study were working in Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary despite coming from different nations such as Brazil, Bhutan, Czech Republic, Hungary, The Netherlands, Serbia, Slovakia, Peru, Poland. The peculiarity of this sample was purposely organized since nowadays there is an undeniable demographic change in the labor market picturing high levels of mobility not just within the European Union but also outside of it. The research process mostly looked into the day-to-day professional challenges VET teachers experience in their workplace taking up transferable solutions mediated from other professions. The results identified various practices that could be …

Año de publicación:

2019

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