Practitioner research and Professional Development in Education
Drawing directly on the work of teachers and other professional trainers concerned with programmes for continuing professional development, this book promotes action research for practitioners so as to develop qualities of critical appraisal and analysis of practice, appropriate to professional contexts.
The publication of the new Pay and Conditions of Employment (DES, 1987) makes it clear that all teachers may be required to take part in some form of staff appraisal. All the contributors to this book have practical experience of introducing staff appraisal into schools or of training colleagues in the processes of staff appraisal, and their experience covers both primary and secondary education, large and small schools. They provide practical guidance on the introduction of staff appraisal into a range of schools, outline a planning process for the establishment of staff appraisal, and help those involved to prepare for the process itself.
This book explains in detail the principles, concepts and also their implication in different Indian situations. This also covers the recent trends of different issues. Many issues like HRD, Competency Management, Potential Appraisal, Performance Appraisal, HR Measurements, Attracting the Talents, Socializing etc. with case studies and finally the employee-employer relationships are also covered. This book contains 13 Chapters.
This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework, an approach developed over the past decade for analyzing the language of evaluation, the linguistic realization of attitudes, judgments and emotion and the ways in which these evaluations are negotiated interpersonally. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, including classroom interaction, academic English, literary stylistics, language of the law and of health professionals, political rhetoric and casual conversation, is demonstrated throughout by sample text analyses drawn from a range of registers, genres and fields.
The first edition of this book was a bestseller, and is generally regarded as the most widely used and authoritative text on this topic. This completely revised and updated second edition takes into account the latest changes in educational practice, and includes coverage of recent developments in teacher appraisal and school inspection procedures.
