Teacher Professional Development as a Scientific Problem in Comparative Pedagogics

• Authors: Natalia Avshenyuk , Lyudmyla Kostina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cogent argument for better understanding of the take-up of teacher professional development through understanding the definition itself has been presented. The main constituents of the definition with reference to different sources of information in psychology, philosophy and pedagogics have been analyzed. To make the research more logical, the definitions “personality development”, “professional development” and “teacher professional development” have been studied in consecutive order. The literature review, which is based on Ukrainian and foreign documents observation, shows different approaches to defining the notion studied: a process-based approach and a system-based approach, as well as their conditional character and appropriateness. In authors’ view, teacher education is a key issue in basic development sectors of any country of the world. Teachers’ professional activities must not focus on individual content only but bear in mind students’ intellectual, spiritual, physical, moral, social and cultural well being. Teacher professional development is a powerful and effective premise for sustained improvement of student outcomes. On the whole, teacher professional development can be defined as a long-term complex process of qualitative changes in teaching aimed at teacher performance improvement in the classroom and ensuring students’ success. According to the study, this process can be compulsory or so called optional. The effectiveness of professional development is structured: leadership, knowledge, available recourses, high level of collaboration, appropriate evaluation and sustainability.

Keywords

EN

personality; personality development; professional development; teacher professional development

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 33-39

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-07-02

Contributors

author

Natalia Avshenyuk

• Institute of Pedagogical and Adult Education, NAPS of Ukraine Address: 9 Berlynskoho Str., Kyiv, 04060, Ukraine

author

Lyudmyla Kostina

• Institute of Pedagogical and Adult Education, NAPS of Ukraine Address: 9 Berlynskoho Str., Kyiv, 04060, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rpp-2014-0016