Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is linked to a doctoral study focusing on teachers' professional development practice in Romania.The purpose of the study is to collect and report teachers' perception of continuous professional programs, to determine wheter or not those programs are percived to provide valuable knowledge and insight into the different development of teachers that promotes student achievement.The paper involves analysis of data drawn from 12 interviews from teachers and 2 interviews from in-service teacher education providers and trainers.The research participants were drawn from a narrow area in Romania with characteristics such as: the territory is mostly populated by Hungarians, therefore the interviews are conducted with teachers whose mother tang is Hungarian and the teaching language is Hungarian too.They are not selected to provide a representative sample of teachers in the area, our focus was to identify local patterns of learning in the larger context of possibilities given.Combined with a larger comparative dataset analysis, the results of this study could support a discussion about different possible interventions to evaluate the national system in the larger context of international frameworks.
Author: Katalin Zoller
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2550040105