Methodology of Comparative Analysis of Public School Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development in Great Britain, Canada and the USA

• Authors: Nataliya Mukan , Svitlana Kravets
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the article the methodology of comparative analysis of public school teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD) in Great Britain, Canada and the USA has been presented. The main objectives are defined as theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, which highlights different aspects of the problem under research; characteristic of the research methodology, used to conduct the comparative analysis. Their major components of the research model (parametric-determining, conceptual and analytical, integrating-analytical and differentiating-analytical, prognostic component) have been defined and specified. Public school teachers’ CPD has been studied by foreign and domestic scientists: political, social, cultural and economic aspects of teachers’ CPD (L. Darling-Hammond, M. Tight); CPD programs (C. Pratt); CPD content (N. Dana Fichtman, M. Rees, A. Ross, S. Zepeda); CPD models, methods and forms (K. Duinlan, P. Grimmet, G. Troia, P. Wong); continuous professional education (Ya. Belmaz, A. Kuzminskyy, O. Kuznyetsova). The research methodology comprises theoretical (comparative-historical, logical, induction and deduction, comparison and compatibility, structural and systematic, analysis and synthesis, general scientific and interdisciplinary forecasting methods), and applied (observations, questioning and interviewing) methods. The research results have been presented.

Keywords

EN

methodology; research model; comparative analysis; public school teachers; CPD; Great Britain; Canada; the USA

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 39-45

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Nataliya Mukan

• Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine Address: 12 Stepan Bandera St., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

author

Svitlana Kravets

• Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine Address: 12 Stepan Bandera St., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rpp-2015-0063