The practice of teachers' professional development : : a cultural-historical approach / / by Helen Grimmett.

• Superior document: Professional Learning ; Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Grimmett, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Series: Professional learning ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book uses Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory to provide a unique theorisation of teachers’ professional development as a practice. A practice can be described as the socially structured actions set up to produce a product or service aimed at meeting a collective human need. In this case, col...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Cultural-Historical Theory and the Vygotskian Project
• Setting the Scene
• The PLZ at Banksia Bay
• Representing the Practice of Professional Development
• Co-teaching with Sia
• Developing Situated Conscious Awareness
• WITHIN Practice PD
• Lemonade Learning Model (Grimmett, 2008)
• References
• Index.