Influences on Faculty Uptake from a Faculty Learning Community
Lydia G. Bender,
James T. Laverty
Abstract:Professional development is a tool that faculty members can use to become more knowledgeable about certain fields of study, or to develop a wide variety of skills. One way that college faculty use professional development is to learn how to become better teachers. We investigate what influences affect the ways in which faculty take up ideas from professional development programs. By employing the framework of Pedagogical Reasoning and Action, we investigate how faculty take up ideas from a particular Faculty L… Show more
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