The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development

"The contributions are authoritative and of high quality. This is an important resource." –The Teacher TrainerA seminal, ‘state-of-the-art’ critical review of teacher and school development which touches upon and discusses issues at both policy and practice levels.

The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from eighteen countries across seven continents, the forty chapters are grouped into ten themes which represent key aspects of teacher and school development:

Issues of Professionalism and Performativity

What Being an Effective Teacher Really Means

Reason and Emotion in Teaching

Schools in Different Circumstances

Student Voices in a Global Context

Professional Learning and Development

Innovative Pedagogies

School Effectiveness and Improvement

Successful Schools, Successful Leader

Professional Communities: their practices, problems & possibilities

Each theme expertly adds to the existing knowledge base about teacher and school development internationally. They are individually important in shaping and understanding an appreciation of the underlying conditions which influence teachers and schools, both positively and negatively, and the possibilities for their further development.

This essential handbook will be of interest to teacher educators, researchers in the field of teacher education and policy makers.

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