Description
The research aim is to show the link between professionalism, professional development, and teaching quality.The paper will apply Linda Evans’s’ (2014) conceptual models of professionalism and professional development as the theoretical framework. These models are increasingly being applied as analytical frames by researchers of teaching and teachers’ lives (e.g. Behroozi & Osam, 2021; Beresford-Dey & Holme, 2017; Guerin, 2021; Johnson, 2018; Kowalczuk-Walędziak, 2021; Philipsen et al., 2019, 2023; Pineda et al., 2022; Zeggelaar et al., 2018), and in their analysis of five ‘powerful or potentially powerful’ models of professional development Boylan et al. (2018) describe Evans’s (2014) model as offering a ‘paradigmatically distinct approach’.
Methods and findings: The paper will be predominantly conceptual, so will not present a method and findings in the traditional sense of the terms. Its method will take the form of an examination of the contribution that Evans’s model may make to researching professionalism and professional development, and to delineating and underpinning teaching quality. The paper will explain Evans’s model, introducing its link with a parallel model of professionalism, and the 11 dimensions that, to Evans, comprise the componential structure of professional development. The paper will illustrate what Evans calls the chain-reaction-type process of individuals’ micro-level development, whereby change (for the better) to one dimension leads to change in another, and then another, etc., exposing the multi-dimensionality of professional development for teaching quality. Drawing upon selected empirical data from research into teacher morale, job satisfaction and motivation, the paper will illustrate how teaching quality may be conceived of as reflecting not only what teachers do (which, in Evans’s model, is encompassed within the behavioural component of teacher professionalism), but also teachers’ attitudes (what Evans calls the ‘attitudinal component’), and their intellectuality (the intellectual component of their professionalism).
| Period | 30 Jun 2025 → 4 Jul 2025 |
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| Event title | 21st ISATT biennial conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Glasgow, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |