Design cases and professional development programs for educators in crisis.

• In Event: Adult Community, Literacy, and Language Educators: Professional Development and Perspectives

Abstract

Design cases as scholarly knowledge building and critical inquiry of practice constitute the core of this manuscript. The importance of design cases in that they showcase and validate practice as scholarship. Three design cases will be described, namely they are professional development programs for English-as-a-New Language teachers in Indiana; for English-as-Foreign language teachers of rural-to-urban migrant children in China; and for coup-displaced Myanmar teachers and educators. This manuscript will demonstrate the ways insight and failures from each design case served as precedents that informed the development of subsequent design cases. The manuscript will conclude with a conceptual framework that emerged from the cases that reflects a post-method and context-sensitive theorization to PD designs for educators in crisis situations.

Author

• Faridah Pawan, Indiana University