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What is Professionalisation

Chapter 22
Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility
The process of developing professionalism as a foreign language teacher, involving self-concept, methodological tools, routines and other teaching-related aspects.
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Teaching Practicums Abroad: Increasing the Professionalization of Preservice Foreign Language Teachers
Karin Vogt (Heidelberg University of Education, Germany)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 38
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0169-5.ch022
Abstract
European student teachers have the opportunity to complete a work placement at a partner school in a target language country. The focus of this study was on 35 undergraduate preservice teachers who completed a teaching practicum placement in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland between 2010-2014. Data from five years of reflective reports were content analysed and complemented with focus group discussions after the students' stay abroad. This chapter briefly outlines the structure of the teaching practicums, delineates data collection and analysis methods, and discusses the results in order to gauge the potential of such experiences for students' intercultural learning and overall professional development. Results indicated an interconnection of categories with the ‘professionalization' of preservice teachers featuring most prominently.
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Redefining Professional: The Case of India's Call Center Agents
Professionalisation captures the process whereby work groups attempt to actually change their position on one or more dimensions of the occupation-profession continuum, moving towards the professional pole (Pavalko, 1971).
Published in Chapter: Redefining Professional: The Case of India's Call Center Agents; From: Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
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