Grow up with the City: Master Teachers' Experience of Teacher Professional Development in Shanghai

This study aims to portray Master Teachers' experience of teacher professional development in post-1976 China. Interview data were collected from 22 Master Teachers from Shanghai in 2019-2020. Analyses of the findings revealed that these Master Teachers experienced three historical stages of te...

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Published in:Professional development in education 2022-02, Vol.ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), p.1-15
Main Authors: Ye, Wangbei, Zhou, Bin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
China
Master Teachers
Shanghai
Teacher professional development
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Summary:This study aims to portray Master Teachers' experience of teacher professional development in post-1976 China. Interview data were collected from 22 Master Teachers from Shanghai in 2019-2020. Analyses of the findings revealed that these Master Teachers experienced three historical stages of teachers' professional development in China: a pre-professional stage at the end of the Cultural Revolution, a modern professional stage following the 1978 economic reform, and a late 1980s' curriculum decentralisation reform stage in which teachers gained more autonomy. This study suggests a 'state-individual-collective group' framework for understanding Master Teachers' experience of teacher professional development in China.
ISSN:1941-5257
1941-5265
DOI:10.1080/19415257.2022.2038658