{"product_id":"9780820486383","title":"Trusting Schools and Teachers: Developing Educational Professionalism Through Self-Evaluation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrusting Schools and Teachers: Developing Educational Professionalism Through Self-Evaluation\u003c\/i\u003e emerged from a series of studies undertaken with teachers at various stages of their careers exploring the impact of a range of evaluation systems on their personal and professional development. The book begins with a comparative analysis of the rise of school and teacher evaluation, charting the trend’s conceptual and political influences, and highlights how the concept of self-evaluation has come, for a variety of reasons, to play a surprisingly large role in the emerging approaches to school and teacher evaluation. This is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the emerging system of whole-school evaluation in Ireland. Research indicates that while self-evaluation looms large in the system’s theoretical framework, in fact, there is strong evidence that neither schools nor teachers have the expertise required to systematically self-evaluate. This book identifies methodologies designed to empower schools and teachers to become genuinely self-evaluating through the development of research skills in the context of online communities of practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026716705008,"sku":"9780820486383","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820486383_p0.jpg?v=1763743276","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820486383","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}