Characteristics and Conditions for Innovative Teachers is a must-read for all those with an interest in teacher education and innovation. It provides a blend of education theory, practice and research and will appeal to teachers, teacher educators, student teachers, school leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders.
Characteristics and Conditions for Innovative Teachers: International Perspectives is a must-read for all those with an interest in teacher education and in enabling teacher innovation. It provides a blend of education theory, practice and research and will appeal to a wide audience including teachers, teacher educators, student teachers, school leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders.
Drawing on a wealth of international perspectives, this key text provides a unique insight into how innovative teachers are understood and supported in their respective contexts. It provides recommendations and insights into the characteristics of innovative teachers and considers how best to support professional development to ensure innovation is both encouraged and meaningful.
Considering the impact of conditions, context and agency on innovative teachers, the book explores the concept of innovation. It provides rationales for the focus on innovative teachers, identifies characteristics of innovative teachers and offers conceptual models underpinned by research, along with an analysis of current international policy on innovation in education. It explores the rich data obtained from research undertaken in 16 different countries and concludes by focusing on how to nurture innovative teachers through professional development.
1. Introduction to the Innovative Teachers Research Study
2. Policy
context for the development of innovative teachers
3. Characteristics and
conditions to support innovative teachers: Agency to transform learning and
teaching
4. Being an innovative teacher: Understanding qualities and
processes
5. Innovative preschool teachers as educational development
leaders: A Swedish case
6. The innovative teacher within learning
organisations: A leadership perspective
7. Innovative teachers: How? Under
which circumstances?
8. Innovative teachers from the perspective of teacher
educators
9. Analysing practice as a gateway towards developing various
desirable characteristics of innovative teachers
10. Transformative
professional development to develop and support innovative teachers
Kay Livingston is a Professor of Educational Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Carol OSullivan is a former Head of Department and former lecturer in Social, Personal and Health Education in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Karl Attard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Consumer Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta.
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