... are being made to “tame” the same digitization sometimes by regulations banning smartphones in class. This study aims to examine how smartphones are interpreted by vocational teachers in Sweden using the theoretical lens of technological frames. Design/methodology/approach The data consist of ten semi...

... that knowledge sharing is a source of informal learning among the teachers when dealing with the JA programs. This takes place through collaboration in communities of practice. Experienced teachers (who have previously taught the programs) are especially valuable in sharing their insights and helping...

...Janne van Bussel; Sean Justice; April Bang; Aquiles Damirón-Alcántara Purpose This paper aims to focus on professional development in the education sector. Its goal is to understand team leaders’ roles in teachers’ professional learning. Second, this paper seeks to understand the influence...

...Karolina Parding; Anna Berg-Jansson Purpose This paper aims to examine and discuss learning conditions for teachers, in the context of choice and decentralisation reforms. Design/methodology/approach This article is based on analyses of 30 interviews with Swedish upper secondary teachers...

...Jon Ohlsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to further studies of theoretical and conceptual understanding of teachers' team learning processes, with a main focus on team work, team atmosphere, and collective reflections. Design/methodology/approach The empirical study...

... (1985) use a social learning perspective when they suggest that the protégée acquires important managerial skills by observing an effective senior manager. For pre‐school teachers this is vital because the training to become pedagogical leaders is central both during their education and also...

... on implementing different kinds of retention initiatives and as a result, most colleges have established extended basic courses aimed at students with personal, social and/or academic difficulties. This paper aims to explore the emotional aspects of vocational educational teachers' work and present a preliminary...

...Sue Webb Purpose What happens when computer software is designed to replace the teacher and the human role is to service the relationship between the software and the learner? Specifically, this paper aims to consider whether or not emotional labour is performed in contexts mediated by technology...

...Nahid Naderi Anari Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction, between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment, and between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among high‐school English teachers...

...Kevin Orr; Robin Simmons Purpose This paper problematises the experience of trainee teachers in further education (FE) colleges in England. It focuses on colleges as employers and developers of their own teaching staff, 90 per cent of whom are trained “in‐service”, while in paid employment...

...Karolina Parding; Lena Abrahamsson Purpose The aim of this article is to challenge the concept of “the learning organization” as unproblematic and inherently good. Design/methodology/approach The research looked at how teachers – as an example of public sector professionals in a work...

...Ebru Zeynep Mugaloglu; Zerrin Doganca Purpose This study aims to enable pre‐service teachers to cooperate with teachers and to participate in solving classroom problems with the guidance of academic staff in an action research (AR) project. Design/methodology/approach Eight pre‐service...

...Victoria J. Marsick; Jim McNally; Allan Blake; Ashley Reid Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present what the study of the experiences of beginning teachers and their informal learning says about the process of learning to teach, and to discuss the main emerging themes in relation to a wider...

...Victoria J. Marsick; Annemarieke Hoekstra; Fred Korthagen; Mieke Brekelmans; Douwe Beijaard; Jeroen Imants Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore in detail how teachers' perceptions of workplace conditions for learning are related to their informal workplace learning activities...

...Victoria J. Marsick; Elena Jurasaite‐Harbison Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore informal contexts of teachers' workplace professional learning and inform educational researchers, teacher educators, administrators and teachers about ways in which teachers learn to improve...

... be transferred to support instructors in a range of different settings, including higher and further education. Human resource management Knowledge sharing Teachers Workplace learning Notions of knowledge economy and knowledge work have become predominant metaphors for characterising...

...Karin J.P. Truijen; Marianne van Woerkom Purpose Competent clinical teachers are essential for clinical teaching. According to the literature, coaching can contribute to improved levels of reflection and better performance of clinical teachers. By engaging in a dialogue about coachee's teaching...

...Katriina Maaranen; Heikki Kynäslahti; Leena Krokfors Purpose The purpose of this article is to bridge the theoretical perspectives of workplace learning and teacher learning. Teacher learning takes place, for example, in the course of a teacher's work as well as in the institutional setting...

...R. Jevne; H. Zingle; D. Ryan; C. McDougall; E. Mortemore A recent Alberta teacher health study indicated that teachers on long‐term disability (LTD) benefits are, for the most part, left to their own devices regarding rehabilitation. Subsequently, the authors of that study (Jevne and Zingle, 1990...

... Anxiety Australia Personality tests Psychology Schools Stress Teachers Work The pop group American Breed would no doubt be surprised to find some of the lyrics to their attempt at the Australian hit parade in the late 1960s as a title to an article in a journal such as this. Nonetheless...