The Increasingly Global Phenomenon of the Expert Teacher Designation: A Critical Realist Perspective and Analysis

• In Event: Worldwide Lens on Enhancing Educational Practices

Abstract

The concept of the ‘expert teacher’ has is an increasingly global phenomenon with many advanced systems investing in a formal designation, this is partly explained by education systems profound need to recruit and retain the best teachers, providing them with a career structure, maintaining their classroom impact and, in some designations, developing other teachers in the system. This research closely examines the purposes and structures of these evolving models and their successes and challenges in each national context and it traces global influences and the challenges of governance and political control of such designations. It also analyses 3 relatively new models ‘The Extended Teacher’ from Norway, ‘The Chartered Teacher’ in England and the Korean ‘Master Teacher’.

Author

• Andy C. Goodwyn, University of Bedfordshire