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Enacted Personal Professional Learning

Re-thinking Teacher Expertise with Story-telling and Problematics

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Authors:
  1. Carmel Patterson

    1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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  • Offers a new approach that allows teachers to negotiate the problematics of teaching and learning

  • Engages readers by drawing on case studies as evidence-based analysis

  • Uses a blend of stories and research to provide stimulus for informal and formal conversations and analysis

  • Offers a vital new approach to teacher professional learning using teachers’ stories from the field

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction—Why a Book on Teacher Professional Learning Now?

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 1-10

  3. Developing Expertise and Personal Professional Learning—A Global Perspective

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 11-30

  4. Re-envisioning Teacher Learning—Enacted Personal Professional Learning (EPPL)

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 31-52

  5. Jaxon: The Motivations of Heart, Happiness and the Whole Person

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 53-67

  6. Chloé: Core Drivers of Experiential Orientation, Feedback and Self-Regulation

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 69-81

  7. Mia: Resilience and Pastoral Care Built Within Determined Professionalism

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 83-95

  8. Lilli: Horizons for Harnessing Emotional Positivity and Dealing with Change

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 97-109

  9. Anh: Emotional Suffering of Resistance and Limitations

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 111-128

  10. Encapsulating EPPL Perspectives and Problematics

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 129-152

  11. Expertise, Third Space Thinking and EPPL Principles for Action

    • Carmel Patterson
    Pages 153-167

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 169-176
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About this book

This book offers a vital new approach to teacher professional learning, drawing on teachers’ stories from the field. It investigates expert teachers’ professional learning and uses a narrative framework to analyse their meaning-making processes. The book focuses on how proficient teachers develop their expertise, emphasising that individual needs and the contextual nature of learning require a personally enacted approach. 


Further, it explores the stories of five secondary school teachers, nominated by their colleagues for their outstanding expertise, to present new insights into expert teachers’ views. Using a new evidence-based approach, Enacted Personal Professional Learning, it incorporates teachers’ unique perspectives, problems and thought processes in order to understand expert teachers’ learning, and offers essential principles for promoting storytelling to help teachers be or become empowered educators who can actively shape education communities for teacher professional learning.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

    Carmel Patterson

About the author

Carmel Patterson is an associate of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and is an active teacher leader in schools. Her motivation lies in developing teacher pedagogy, articulating curricula, integrating digital technologies in learning, and encouraging enacted personal professional learning. She facilitates teacher professional learning in schools, consults on the accreditation of professional learning courses provided by private enterprise and universities, and presents papers at education research conferences both nationally and internationally. Carmel’s teaching, research and professional learning expertise encompass qualifications and experience across her career in university teaching and research, secondary school and tertiary vocational teaching and coordination, and organisational communications, learning, and change management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enacted Personal Professional Learning

  • Book Subtitle: Re-thinking Teacher Expertise with Story-telling and Problematics

  • Authors: Carmel Patterson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6007-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6006-0Published: 12 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6007-7Published: 16 January 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 176

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Learning & Instruction

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