Teacher professional 'Development' in Tanzania: Contesting the orthodoxy

Swai, Calvin Z.

dc.creator	Swai, Calvin Z.
dc.date	2021-05-07T06:43:14Z
dc.date	2021-05-07T06:43:14Z
dc.date	2019
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-20T14:13:41Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-20T14:13:41Z
dc.identifier	Swai, C. Z. (2019). Teacher professional 'Development' in Tanzania: contesting the orthodoxy. In the proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Policy Reforms for Industrial Economy in Africa (ICIEPRIEA), (pp 83-100). The University of Dodoma, Tanzania.
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2985
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2985
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dc.description	This paper challenges the orthodoxy of teacher professional „development‟ in Tanzania. It seeks to provoke conversations on the relevance of teacher professional „development‟ in the current post-modern era. Employing qualitative content analysis protocols, the paper draws on literature to generate state-of-the-description of Tanzania‟s teacher professional “development” landscape and the questions it advances. The Giroux‟s (1988) notion of a critical pedagogy of learning was utilized as an interpretive tool to make sense of the nature and practices of teacher professional „development‟ and how they shaped and continue to shape teachers and their professional identity, classroom teaching, and teacher learning for professional growth. Through this lens, the paper unpacks the identity of teachers implicate in the conventional teacher professional „development‟ alongside the image of teacher learning, the teaching profession, and school it conveys through its inherent practices. It correspondingly unearths the nature of relations produced by teacher professional “development” practices between teachers and educational officials and teachers and teachers within a school landscape. The paper suggests rethinking teacher professional “development” so to embrace the organic image of teachers as professionals but also to reflect on the growing demands of the work of teaching in a post-modern era.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	The University of Dodoma
dc.subject	Teacher professional development
dc.subject	Pedagogy
dc.subject	Critical pedagogy
dc.subject	Content analysis
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.subject	Professional development
dc.subject	Teacher profession
dc.subject	Teacher development
dc.subject	Professional orthodox
dc.title	Teacher professional 'Development' in Tanzania: Contesting the orthodoxy
dc.title	In the proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Policy Reforms for Industrial Economy in Africa (ICIEPRIEA)
dc.type	Conference Proceedings