Teachers as Learners: Critical Discourse on Challenges and Opportunities

By Ora Kwo

In movements of educational reform across the world, educators are forging new roles, identities and relationships. Leadership is of course vital, but needs to be rooted in a capacity for learning. This volume responds to some of the tensions and paradoxes typically associated with educational reform, presenting a critical discourse on teachers as learners. Contributing authors highlight a range of culturally related challenges that teachers should not face in isolation. Sustainable teachers' learning ideally requires a collective engagement to turn challenges into opportunities in the quest for meaningful professional development. This book offers a vision of a new relationship among educational workers as a joint force of learners in a cross-boundary endeavour aimed at a renewed moral commitment to education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 962809355X
• ISBN13: 9789628093557
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 364 Pages