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Zuzovsky, Ruth; Donitsa-Schmidt, Smadar; Trumper, Ricardo; Arar, Khalid; Barak, Judith – Professional Development in Education, 2019
Post-qualification Master's level programs in Israeli teacher education colleges were launched in 2004 under the governance of two nationwide policy bodies -- the Council for Higher Education and the Ministry of Education -- each holding different ideologies regarding the nature of these studies: one in accordance with a 'transmissive' and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Masters Programs, Schools of Education
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Barak, Judith; Gidron, Ariela; Turniansky, Bobbie – Professional Development in Education, 2010
In this work we study the meaning of professional development as a participative process within a community of practice. In this collaborative narrative self-study we look at the development of ourselves as a professional group working together in an intensive program. The study is based on personal career stories, each told by its author, but…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Teacher Educators
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Gorodetsky, Malka; Barak, Judith – Professional Development in Education, 2009
Engestrom and others have suggested that major barriers towards school change are rooted in the hidden, implicit aspects of daily school life that are taken for granted. These constitute the school's taken-for-granted routines, which mold teachers' affordances and constraints within the school, without their awareness. The present paper provides…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Influences, School Culture, Work Environment