Conference:
ECER 2008
Network:
Format:
Symposium Paper
Session Information
01 SES 08, Issues in European Teacher Development: Linking Theory and Practice
Symposium
Time:
2008-09-12
08:30-10:00
Room:
B3 313
Chair:
Rosie Anne Turner-Bisset
Contribution
Continuing professional development in Ireland has historically been an ad hoc and individualistic undertaking and largely provided by higher education institutions. Consequently any accredited programmes which are offered are mainly underpinned by university and not state driven priorities and agendas. However, with the arrival of the Teaching Council in 2006 and the rapid encroachment of performativty and competency based models in undergraduate teacher education programmes (where traditionally there has been much greater levels of state involvement), there is a concern that this will find its way into the domain of CPD.
The introduction of the professional doctorate in 2004 in the Republic of Ireland is a new phenomenon and whilst much has been written on the rise (and supposed fall) of this kind of programme in other advanced capitalist societies, it has been greeted with much enthusiasm. Drawing on data collected from students and lecturers who have been involved in the programme since its inception in 2005, our intention in this paper is to critically discuss the programme offered by Trinity College Dublin. Our guiding axiom in designing the programme was to provide practitioners with a model which has at its core an enabling critical pedagogy concerned with building research capacity in Ireland. As such, the programme was designed to counter the shift towards the more rigid and so-called competency based models that have emerged over the past decade in both doctoral and many other areas of CPD. Our central argument is that for doctoral level work to have personal and professional impact it needs to be set in a culture of critical co-enquiry within a non-teleological structure.
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