TY - JOUR
T1 - Israeli teacher educators’ perceptions of their professional development paths in teaching, research and institutional leadership
AU - Guberman, Ainat
AU - Mcdossi, Oded
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019, © 2019 Association for Teacher Education in Europe.
PY - 2019/8/8
Y1 - 2019/8/8
N2 - Teacher educators have three main paths for career development: teaching, research and institutional leadership. These may be mutually supportive, but also, sources of tension. Recent national and institutional policies encourage teacher educators to increase their research activities. This study aims to describe Israeli teacher educators’ perceptions of the three paths, and their interrelationships, as influenced by their work contexts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 experienced, research-orientated teacher educators who work in various teacher education colleges in Israel. The results indicate that although research promotes their teaching and institutional leadership, they struggle to strike a balance between the three paths. Colleges do not provide support for career planning, and view teacher educators’ professional development as personal rather than as a collective institutional endeavour.
AB - Teacher educators have three main paths for career development: teaching, research and institutional leadership. These may be mutually supportive, but also, sources of tension. Recent national and institutional policies encourage teacher educators to increase their research activities. This study aims to describe Israeli teacher educators’ perceptions of the three paths, and their interrelationships, as influenced by their work contexts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 experienced, research-orientated teacher educators who work in various teacher education colleges in Israel. The results indicate that although research promotes their teaching and institutional leadership, they struggle to strike a balance between the three paths. Colleges do not provide support for career planning, and view teacher educators’ professional development as personal rather than as a collective institutional endeavour.
KW - Teacher educators
KW - professional development
KW - research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067554673&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2019.1628210
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2019.1628210
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0261-9768
VL - 42
SP - 507
EP - 522
JO - European Journal of Teacher Education
JF - European Journal of Teacher Education
IS - 4
ER -
