Guest editorial: Rethinking in-service social studies teacher professional development in polarizing times

Abstract

Professional development is characterized as "a subset of the range of experiences that may result in professional learning" (Darling-Hammond et al., 2017 p. 2), which can be integral to developing knowledgeable and skilled teachers (Johnson et al., 2021). Researchers agree that effective PD maintains core structural features including content-centered, duration, dynamic learning, participation and coherence (e.g.,