Individual, School, and National Factors Impacting Teachers ... - 9780367418564

Taylor & Francis

Part I: Multiple Layers of Workplace Learning 1. The Complexity of Teacher Learning 2. Researching Informal Teacher Learning 3. Portraits of Teachers Part II: Teachers as Learners 4. Dispositions: Opportunistic\u2014Proactive Learners\u2019 Continuum 5. Sources of Learning: Individual\u2014Social Leaners\u2019 Continuum 6. Reactions to Dilemmas: Emotional\u2014Cognitive Learners\u2019 Continuum 7. Orientation to Problems for Learning: Self\u2014Teaching-Oriented Problems 8. Engagement in Learning Process: Spontaneous\u2014Deliberate Part III: School Cultures as Contexts for Informal Workplace Learning 9. A Midwestern Elementary School in the USA 10. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Russian Language 11. A Lithuanian School with Instruction in Lithuanian Language Part IV: National Educational Cultures and Teacher Informal Workplace Learning 12. Centralization versus decentralization in educational systems 13. Teaching children versus teaching curriculum 14. Market-driven structs