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List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The changing agenda for professional development in education

Bob Moon

SECTION 1 Orientations

What do new views of knowledge and thinking have to say about research on teacher learning?

Ralph T. Putnam

Hilda Borko

Getting to scale with good educational practice

Richard F. Elmore

SECTION 2 Models of leading professional development

School leadership: some key ideas

Brian Fidler

Leadership for learning: re-engineering `mind sets'

John West-Burnham

Leadership of school subject areas: tensions and dimensions of managing in the middle

Hugh Busher

Alma Harris

SECTION 3 Skills and processes in the leadership of professional development

Mentoring in professional development: the English and Welsh experience

John Butcher

Teachers supporting teachers through peer coaching

Jeanne Swafford

A new approach to teaching and learning in journal club

Khalid S. Khan

Harry Gee

Teachers' work groups as professional development: what do the teachers learn?

Araceli Estebaranz

Pilar Mingorance

Carlos Marcelo

Teams

John West-Burnham

The role of school managers in monitoring and evaluating the work of a school: inspectors' judgements and schools' responses

Sheila Russell

Evaluation: Who needs it? Who cares?

Marvin C. Alkin

SECTION 4 Evidence in the development of professional knowledge

The teachers' construction of knowledge

Britt-Mari Barth

Teaching as a research-based profession: possibilities and prospects

David H. Hargreaves

Educational research and teaching: a response to David Hargreaves' TTA lecture

Martyn Hammersley

The knowledge-creating school

David H. Hargreaves

The experience of evidence-based healthcare

Alison Hill

What is evidence-based education?

Philip Davies

Accessing the evidence: towards the research-informed age

Elizabeth Bird

SECTION 5 Education, communication, information and the future of professional development

New technologies for teacher professional development

Ronald W. Marx

Phyllis C. Blumenfeld

Joseph S. Krajcik

Elliot Soloway

Using networks to support the professional development of teachers

Bert Moonen

Joke Voogt

Breaking the silence: the role of technology and community in leading professional development

Jenny Leach

Index