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This comprehensive textbook looks at current issues in learning and teaching across the three key areas of policy, learning and practice. It will help you to think critically on your Education course, and to make connections between the processes of learning and the practicalities of teaching. Contemporary Issues in Learning and Teaching addresses key issues in primary, secondary and special education. The contributors reflect on current thinking and policy surrounding learning and teaching, and what it means to be a teacher today. Looking at the practice of teaching in a wider context allows you to explore some of the issues you will face, and the evolving expectations of your role in a policy-led environment. The book focuses on core areas of debate including education across different contexts and settings, teaching in an inclusive environment, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for practitioners.This essential text can be used across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including BEd/BA degrees, initial teacher-training courses, and Masters in Education programs.
Interprofessional Approaches to Practice
Interprofessional Approaches to Practice
Key Ideas Explored in This Chapter are
- The discourse of ‘joined-up working’
- Working with other professionals
- Collaboration
- Teachers’ professional knowledge and identity
Over the past two decades the discourse of partnership and collaboration has become increasingly evident in all areas of public and professional life. Working together is seen as ‘a good thing’ and statements of professional standards for teachers and other professionals at all levels include references to the expectation that they will engage in both collegial and interprofessional practice (for example, GTCNI, 2007; GTCS, 2006; GTCW, 2009; TDA, 2007). Earlier chapters in this book examine how the role of the teacher involves working collaboratively with other teachers to support children's learning; working across interprofessional boundaries is another aspect of joint ...
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