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Developing, Sustaining and Retaining Teacher Quality: Factors That Count (2021)
Book Chapter

Traditionally, teachers’ quality has been understood to rely upon their levels of subject, pedagogical content knowledge and classroom management skills. These are provided initially through a period of pre-service education and training; and may be... Read More about Developing, Sustaining and Retaining Teacher Quality: Factors That Count.

The new professionalism? how good teachers continue to teach to their best and well in challenging reform contexts (2021)
Book Chapter

Teacher professionalism has long been defined as being composed of a strong technical culture, service ethic, professional commitment, and autonomy. They have been regarded as the pillars which have defined teachers’ professionalism. In recent years,... Read More about The new professionalism? how good teachers continue to teach to their best and well in challenging reform contexts.

Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience (2018)
Book Chapter

I will take as given that: (1) a core defining feature of teacher professionalism is a positive sense of professional identity; (2) identity is an amalgam of the personal and professional selves, and is represented through the dynamic interplay betwe... Read More about Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience.

Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based upon a keynote address to the first global teacher education summit, organised by Beijing Normal University in 2011, in which research across the world about influences which affect teachers' sense of professional identity, capa... Read More about Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths.