Collaborative teacher development on teaching World Englishes


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Atay D., Kurt G., Kaşlıoğlu Ö.

Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development. , Kenan Dikilitaş,İsmail Hakkı Erten, Editör, IGI Global, Pennsylvania, ss.165-184, 2016

  • Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Yayınevi: IGI Global
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Pennsylvania
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.165-184
  • Editörler: Kenan Dikilitaş,İsmail Hakkı Erten, Editör
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.