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Researching professional learning
Author(s) -
Saunders M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2729.1995.tb00139.x
Subject(s) - typology , professional learning community , professional development , sociology , pedagogy , product (mathematics) , workplace learning , educational research , frame (networking) , professional studies , educational technology , psychology , work (physics) , engineering , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , geometry , mathematics , anthropology
This paper draws on recent research which includes the JITOL project, funded through the EC DELTA programme, and a current ESRC project on teachers' professional culture. It identifies a typology of contexts in which professional learning might take place. This typology was a product of the evaluation of the JITOL project and seeks to identify the learning which grows out of occupational environments. It problemetises the notion of ‘professional’, arguing that the term refers to a set of values which frame occupational practice and thus learning. Finally, it offers an approach which might form the basis of research into professional learning.