TY - JOUR
T1 - Personal development planning in initial teacher training
T2 - A case study from post‐compulsory education
AU - Thompson, Ronald
AU - Hallwood, Linda
AU - Clements, Christine
AU - Rivron, Helen
PY - 2009/9/1
Y1 - 2009/9/1
N2 - This paper provides a case study of personal development planning (PDP) within an initial teacher training course for the post‐compulsory sector, delivered through a large consortium in the north of England. The paper reviews conceptual and empirical studies of PDP in higher education and reports on the practice and perceptions of students and tutors in the light of these studies. The paper finds that PDP is often a negative experience and that difficulty and frustration are associated with the requirement to re‐contextualise, for the purposes of external audit, practices occurring organically but less visibly elsewhere in the course. The importance of issues relating to resources, assessment and ownership of PDP processes is highlighted, but the paper concludes that conceptual and ideological difficulties imply that requirements for ‘individual learning plans’ and ‘personal development records’ for trainee teachers may be inescapably problematic.
AB - This paper provides a case study of personal development planning (PDP) within an initial teacher training course for the post‐compulsory sector, delivered through a large consortium in the north of England. The paper reviews conceptual and empirical studies of PDP in higher education and reports on the practice and perceptions of students and tutors in the light of these studies. The paper finds that PDP is often a negative experience and that difficulty and frustration are associated with the requirement to re‐contextualise, for the purposes of external audit, practices occurring organically but less visibly elsewhere in the course. The importance of issues relating to resources, assessment and ownership of PDP processes is highlighted, but the paper concludes that conceptual and ideological difficulties imply that requirements for ‘individual learning plans’ and ‘personal development records’ for trainee teachers may be inescapably problematic.
KW - personal development planning
KW - initial teacher training
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13596740903139339
U2 - 10.1080/13596740903139339
DO - 10.1080/13596740903139339
M3 - Article
VL - 14
SP - 269
EP - 285
JO - Research in Post-Compulsory Education
JF - Research in Post-Compulsory Education
SN - 1359-6748
IS - 3
ER -