Abstract
The paper presents an ideographic research approach that is being developed to describe the career biographies of individual teachers. These 'portrayals' were seen as a means for exploring the notion of professional development and the personal and contextual conditions that bear upon it. Interviews, together with a variation on the repertory grid technique, were used with two experienced teachers as the means for constructing their phenomenological life-worlds. Implications for in-service education policies and strategies are drawn from the case studies, and a case is presented for the importance of developing models of teacher development complementary to models of curriculum innovation.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Australian Journal of Education |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 1984 |
Disciplines
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research