Professional re-accreditation: constructing educational policy for career-long teacher professional learning

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 132-144

  Watson, Cate ^a   Fox, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

appraisal; career long professional learning; coaching; competence standards; professional registration; professional review and development; professional update; re accreditation; self evaluation; teacher subjectivities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920115482     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2014.907446     Document Type: Article

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