Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development. , Kenan Dikilitaş,İsmail Hakkı Erten, Editör, IGI Global, Pennsylvania, ss.165-184, 2016
Teachers play a central role in shaping education. Educational innovations succeed or fail with the teachers
who shape it (Lieberman & Pointer Mace, 2008); thus teachers’ professional development process
should be given utmost importance and organized in a way that supports and promotes their growth.
Traditional INSET programs based on knowledge-transmission are found to be ineffective in reaching
this aim. The present case-study introduces a collaborative INSET program, in which the participating
pre-and in-service teachers tried to develop their understanding of World Englishes and integrate it into
teaching under the guidance of university supervisors. Data collected by means of interviews revealed
that this process enriched the knowledge of the participants and enabled them to look at the relevant
issue from a critical perspective.