Pedagogical Knowledge And The Changing Nature Of The Teaching Profession Sonia Guerriero by Sonia Guerriero 9789264270695, 9789264270688, 9264270698, 926427068X instant download after payment.

The idea for this book came about as a result of a symposium held in June 2014 that was organised by the CERI in collaboration with the Flemish Department of Education and Training. The purpose of the symposium was to bring together a group of leading experts to support the conceptual development of the ITEL project. Its purpose is to better understand the pedagogical core of the teaching profession, namely, teachers’ pedagogical knowledge, and how it relates to teachers’ professional competences and student learning.
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eachers are expected to process and evaluate new knowledge relevant to their core professional practice and to regularly update their profession’s knowledge base. This challenge is situated in a rapidly changing educational system, which is expected to deliver on “21st century skills” in increasingly more diverse classrooms, and conditioned by expanding research-based scientific knowledge base on teaching and learning.
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This process of continuous renewal of teachers’ professional knowledge is an important part, maybe the most important, of teachers’ professionalisation. These new demands and opportunities might require teachers to update their teaching methods, employ innovative teaching practices and mobilise various sources of knowledge.
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For some countries, this might entail a re-skilling of the current teaching workforce and upgrading of the profession’s knowledge base within teacher education institutions and through professional communities. Understanding what the current knowledge base looks like will help determine whether and to what extent upgrading teachers’ skills is required.