Reframing Motivation as 'Investment' in Teacher Continuing Professional Development

Autor/in	Abakah, Ellen
Titel	Reframing Motivation as 'Investment' in Teacher Continuing Professional Development
Quelle	In: Teacher Development, 27 (2023) 3, S.353-373 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Abakah, Ellen)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-4530
DOI	10.1080/13664530.2023.2167858
Schlagwörter	Faculty Development; Teacher Motivation; Teacher Participation; Junior High School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Informal Education; Social Influences; Public School Teachers; Teacher Surveys; Ghana; Teaching and Learning International Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	This study is framed within Norton's notion of 'investment' to explore the factors influencing teachers' reasons and decisions to participate in continuing professional development (CPD) activities. Data were collected from 522 junior high school teachers in the Central region of Ghana using a survey and in-depth interviews. The findings reveal that teachers more frequently participated in informal CPD activities than in organised ones. Also, motivation to participate in CPD activities extended beyond intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to include sociocultural factors such as the nature of teachers' identity and agency, which were shaped by existing contextual conditions in teachers' professional practice. Such social conditions increased teachers' expectations of resources from CPD participation. Therefore, teachers invested in CPD activities where their expectations of resources from participation outweighed the cost to be expended on such involvement. The study opens up a debate for rethinking teacher motivation to include the notion of 'investment' to provide a much deeper understanding of the complexities involved in teachers' reasons for participating in CPD activities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01