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While research activities promote teaching and institutional leadership, teacher educators struggle to balance these three career paths due to a lack of institutional support and colleges treating professional development as a personal rather than collective endeavor. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

June 10, 2019

Israeli teacher educators’ perceptions of their professional development paths in teaching, research and institutional leadership

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Abstract

Teacher educators have three main paths for career development: teaching, research and institutional leadership. These may be mutually supportive, but also, sources of tension. Recent national and institutional policies encourage teacher educators to increase their research activities. This study aims to describe Israeli teacher educators’ perceptions of the three paths, and their interrelationships, as influenced by their work contexts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 experienced, research-orientated teacher educators who work in various teacher education colleges in Israel. The results indicate that although research promotes their teaching and institutional leadership, they struggle to strike a balance between the three paths. Colleges do not provide support for career planning, and view teacher educators’ professional development as personal rather than as a collective institutional endeavour.

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Guberman et al. (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a239f0696b50e6ae79ef0ce https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2019.1628210

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