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‘Challenge and support’: the role of the critical friend in continuing professional development

Author(s) -

Holden Gary

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

the curriculum journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843

H-Index - 36

eISSN - 1469-3704

pISSN - 0958-5176

DOI - 10.1080/0958517970080307

Subject(s) - professional development , curriculum , action (physics) , pedagogy , action research , psychology , continuing professional development , medical education , engineering ethics , sociology , engineering , medicine , quantum mechanics , physics

In this paper, the writer, a senior teacher in a comprehensive school, describes his role as a critical friend to two teachers who were undertaking self‐initiated action research projects as part of a school‐based, award‐bearing curriculum development scheme offered in conjunction with the local higher education institute (HEI). He concludes that such a relationship, in providing both challenge and support for colleagues who are attempting to improve practice, is a powerful vehicle for the professional development of teachers and has a positive impact on whole‐school development.

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