Titlebook: Continuing Professional Development of Teachers in Finland; Yongjian Li,Fred Dervin Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Framing CPD to Understand and Explore the Finnish Context,conceptual and theoretical chapter for the rest of the book. We start by problematizing CPD as a polysemic idea, reviewing international research. We are critical of the fact that most of the literature on CPD is Westerncentric and add what we consider to be interesting dimensions from China. The se

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Finnish Initial Teacher Education and CPD, be clearly and coherently linked. The chapter starts with a quick critical presentation of the Finnish Core Curriculum for Basic Education (2014/2016) which has been very much discussed around the world, and is central to understand teacher education and CPD. The role of teachers in the Curriculum

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Providers: Offerings and Critiques,face in offering CPD? Main Finnish providers share their views, critiques and hopes about CPD. Tensions from within and between providers are also described. The chapter helps get a broad sense of CPD offerings and strategies.

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,Teachers’ Views on CPD,rs allow us to tackle the following issues: what are their experiences of CPD? What are their critiques of it? What needs do they have? What do their discourses on CPD tell us about the pitfalls of Finnish education? The data was collected a few months after major curricular reforms in Finland and t

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Data and Methodologies, education are so complex that we needed a tool that allowed us to explore its different facets. We remind our readers that the collected data will only provide us with an entry point into some aspects of CPD and that we do not aim to generalise for the entire country.

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,Teachers’ Views on CPD,discourses on CPD tell us about the pitfalls of Finnish education? The data was collected a few months after major curricular reforms in Finland and there seemed to be frustration amongst the teachers, especially in relation to the lack of proper CPD. At least one of the teachers was very active in self-training.

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Conclusions,usion summarizes what we found; proposes a concluding figure which presents the organization and funding of CPD in Finland and offers recommendations for different actors involved in CPD. These recommendations are of interest to a global audience.