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Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity

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Teaching for the knowledge society - educating for ingenuity teaching beyond the KSS - from value for money to values for good teaching despite the knowledge societies I - the end of ingenuity teaching despite KSS II - the loss of integrity the KCS school - an endangered entity beyond standardization - professional learning communities or performance training sects? the future of teaching in the KSC - rethinking improvement, removing impoverishment.
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Teaching for the knowledge society - educating for ingenuity teaching beyond the knowledge society - from value for money to values for good teaching despite the knowledge society I - the end of ingenuity teaching despite the knowledge society II - the loss of integrity the knowledge society school - an endangered entity beyond standardization - professional learning communities or performance training sects? the future of teaching in the knowledge society - rethinking improvement, removing impoverishment.

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Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature

TL;DR: The capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organizational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support as mentioned in this paper, which gives individuals, groups, whole school communities and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time.
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Teacher self-efficacy and teacher burnout: A study of relations

TL;DR: In this paper, the AMOS 7 scale for measuring teacher self-efficacy was used to explore relations between teachers' perception of the school context, teacher selfefficacy, collective teacher efficacy, teacher burnout, teacher job satisfaction and teachers' beliefs that factors external to teaching puts limitations to what they can accomplish.
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Reframing Professional Development Through Understanding Authentic Professional Learning

TL;DR: In this article, an alternative conceptualization of professional development is proposed, based on philosophical assumptions congruent with evidence about professional learning from seminal educational research of the past two decades, and an argument is presented for a shift in discourse and focus from delivering and evaluating professional development programs to understanding and supporting authentic professional learning.
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Teacher Job Satisfaction and Motivation to Leave the Teaching Profession: Relations with School Context, Feeling of Belonging, and Emotional Exhaustion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between school context variables and teachers' feeling of belonging, emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, and motivation to leave the teaching profession and found that these relations were primarily indirect, mediated through feelings of belonging and emotional exhaustion.
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Co-Teaching in Inclusive Classrooms: A Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The dominant co-teaching role was found to be "one teach, one assist" in classrooms characterized by traditional instruction, even though this method is not highly recommended in the literature as discussed by the authors.
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High Skills: Globalisation, competitiveness and skill formation

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The Invisible Hand of the American Empire

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