Further education of secondary school teachers in the context of their professional development

Abstract

This monograph focuses on further education of secondary school teachers as a relevant part of teachers’ professional development and the relevant circumstances that currently surround it. The objective of the theoretical part was to define and describe all relevant concepts, constructs, terms and categories that relate to the empirical part of the work and also form the basis of the whole work. The empirical part presents the results of the survey which had two specific objectives. The first was to describe and analyse the relevant factors and conditions for the further education of secondary school teachers today. The second objective was to identify the links between teachers’ attitudes towards further education, motivation and preferences for further education on the one hand and professional demographic characteristics on the other. The professional demographic characteristics were gender, age, length of experience, teacher’s professional field of study and type of school.