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Using activity theory to investigate the efficacy of Co-operative teacher development .

Contrived collegiality? . Using activity theory to investigate the efficacy of Co-operative teacher development . Sarah Jones. The Sigmoid Curve. Handy, 1984. Holistic meaning. Transforming dialogue. Power sharing. Well being. Woods, 2011. C ollegiality. Spontaneous Voluntary

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Using activity theory to investigate the efficacy of Co-operative teacher development .

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  1. Contrived collegiality? Using activity theory to investigate the efficacy of Co-operative teacher development. Sarah Jones

  2. The Sigmoid Curve Handy, 1984

  3. Holistic meaning Transforming dialogue Power sharing Well being Woods, 2011

  4. Collegiality • Spontaneous • Voluntary • Development oriented • Pervasive across time and space • Unpredictable (Hargreaves, 2008)

  5. Contrived collegiality • Administratively regulated. • Compulsory • Implementation-oriented • Fixed in time and space. • Predictable (Hargreaves, 2008)

  6. Engeström (1999)

  7. Engeström (1999)

  8. Conclusion • Conflict can now be viewed either as an opportunity to explore issues of divergence or sources of subversion. • Collegiality is difficult to implement and may only be seen sporadically. • Organisational-induced collegiality exists in the SIG. This makes its an object-orientated, collective and culturally mediated human activity. • Wider political context is outside the activity but is still controlling it.

  9. Some questions…. • How do we overtly share power? • How do we ‘loosen’ experimentation/ risk-taking but keep ‘strength’ over norms to allow teachers to tolerate losses in self-esteem or damage to new identities born out of new learning? • How do we continue a process of self-monitoring in a socially constructed platform to enable developments to continue, but avoid surveillance and damaging power dynamics?

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