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Crossing Boundaries: The Journey from Teacher to Teaching Artist

Author : Purnima Ruanglertbutr
Publisher : The Melbourne Graduate School of Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Boundaries: The Journey from Teacher to Teaching Artist written by Purnima Ruanglertbutr and published by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Boundaries: The Journey from Teacher to Teaching Artist is an exhibition curated by Purnima Ruanglertbutr. Crossing Boundaries displays more than sixty works of art by twenty-seven secondary school Visual Art teachers who have recently graduated from the Master of Teaching (Secondary, Art) program at the University of Melbourne. In addition to a wide range of eclectic artworks across multiple mediums, this catalogue comprises succinct and informative commentaries on the role that art making plays in the graduates’ teaching. These are special insights; Visual Art teachers are educators who carry the expectation that to be good in the classroom, they should have a vibrant private practice – that in order to ‘teach it’, they also have to prove that they can ‘do it’. But through their works of art and artist statements, the participants in this exhibition question their practice and expose themselves to continued examination and critique. The commentaries reveal the graduates exhibit professional identities that amalgamate both the roles of an ‘artist’ and a ‘teacher’ through a re-framing of the teacher of art as an ‘artist teacher’ or a ‘teaching artist’. The foreword by Art Education Australia, Art Education Victoria and the introduction by the curator explores the term ‘teaching artist’ within the context of the exhibition - that ‘teaching artists’ boast a hybrid identity fusing the roles of teacher and artist – an identity that conflates two distinct professions and is successful because the artist teacher brings practitioner skills in both professions.

Connections: Teaching, Art, Life

Author : Purnima Ruanglertbutr
Publisher : The Melbourne Graduate School of Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connections: Teaching, Art, Life written by Purnima Ruanglertbutr and published by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections: Teaching, Art, Life is the third annual Teacher Artmaker Project (TAP) exhibition. The artworks in this exhibition are created by professional artist-teachers who are striving to balance their teaching, art making, and personal lives. Through this research exhibition, 30 early-career teachers explore how these aspects of their daily lives can connect, rather than conflict. This exhibition is important in its own right, in that finding time to make and exhibit art is a challenge to all newly graduated art teachers. This is an important exhibition - it is one part of a larger research project administered by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. As a consequence, this full-colour catalogue comprises two sections. The first contains reflective statements by the artists, each of whom have articulated how they balance art production and being a teacher, two seemingly disparate worlds. The second contains a research report concerning trends in the Teacher Artmaker Project research data to date. This, then, is a research catalogue that simultaneously celebrates participants’ art making products and their reflections, while placing these into a wider research context relevant to the ‘artist-teacher’ phenomenon.

Sensations of Art-making: Triumphs, Torments and Risk-taking

Author : Purnima Ruanglertbutr
Publisher : The Melbourne Graduate School of Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensations of Art-making: Triumphs, Torments and Risk-taking written by Purnima Ruanglertbutr and published by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensations of Art-making: Triumphs, Torments and Risk-taking is an exhibition curated by Purnima Ruanglertbutr that documents the collection of works by professional artist-teachers, who are graduates of Melbourne University’s Master of Teaching (Secondary Art) program. The works in this show demand attention by illustrating with sensitivity the triumphs, torments and risk-taking inherent to professional artistic practice. Each of these artists is treading the difficult pathway of moving into the world of teaching while retaining their artist identity. For some, this transition into the classroom is still to come. For others they are one, two or even three years into lesson planning, staff meetings, sports days and report writing. Theirs is the reality of conflict between their art production and being a teacher - two seemingly incompatible worlds. Through participation in this exhibition, they are beginning to fashion a mechanism for keeping alive their passion for art, while also nurturing a career teaching art to the next generation. This exhibition catalogue documents the work of early-career visual art educators and insightful commentaries by the artist teachers themselves - these are artworks produced during those critical first years after teacher training. Some exhibits explicitly address the role of art making within the teaching process. Others purposefully avoid issues to do with the classroom by illustrating the artists’ ongoing development of a private professional practice. Either way, these are critical pieces of information in the elusive phenomenon of the ‘artist-teacher’.

A Teaching Artist at Work

Author : Barbara McKean
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Teaching Artist at Work written by Barbara McKean and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works presented are moving and impressive; their authenticity and tone in harmony with the story teller's voice. The story itself may open new windows ... for those intent on enriching and humanizing what occurs in contemporary schools. - Maxine Greene A fabulous book for arts and theater education. -Merryl Goldberg Author of Integrating the Arts, Third Edition Are you a theatre teaching artist, or considering it? No matter what kind of educational setting you're in, the theatre skills you teach are intimately linked to your own artistry: you've got to know how to teach from your own practice while you learn to practice the art of teaching. The key is discovering how the educational setting, the students, and the stage link. A Teaching Artist at Work helps theatre teaching artists develop connections between their pedagogical and artistic selves. The book presents a framework for thinking about the work of teaching artists in general and theatre teaching artists in particular. Through descriptive examinations of practice, the book also provides theatre teaching artists and those who prepare and work beside them with concrete examples of three theatre-education projects in three different educational settings as well as the collaborative processes that helped them succeed. Replicable in other settings-such as community outreach programs, after school and summer programs hosted by professional theatres, and not-for-profit educational theatres-these projects provide a jumping-off point for others who work to create interesting theatre curriculum. In any educational setting, theatre teaching artists create spaces where teachers and students can envision a new, different, and exciting way of learning and doing that they can apply to theatre education and many other content areas. With emphasis on linking personal artistry with pedagogical artistry and examples drawn from McKean's own practice, A Teaching Artist At Work is an invaluable resource for teaching artists and the arts-education community.

Tangle Journey

Author : Beckah Krahula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1631590553
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Tangle Journey written by Beckah Krahula and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the next step in your zentangle journey, with even more step-by-step techniques and beautiful inspirational drawings! An exciting and in-depth follow up to One Zentangle A Day, Beckah Krahula guides you along with her sure-footed instruction and beautiful examples as she shows you how to take tangle drawing to the next level. From florals and organics to journal drawings and cityscapes, all kinds of experimentation are explored. Gain deeper insights into how tangles can be combined to create more complex and realistic forms, how to use contour and shading, how to work with midtoned papers by adding highlights and shadows, how to use introduce color-based media, how to integrate mixed-media techniques, and how to work on various surfaces. With Tangle Journey, get ready to progress in your knowledge, skill and relaxation!

Ebook: Professional Learning for Artist Teachers: How to Balance Practice and Pedagogy

Author : Rachel Payne
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335252168
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Ebook: Professional Learning for Artist Teachers: How to Balance Practice and Pedagogy written by Rachel Payne and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the context of one of the most difficult times for art and design education that I can remember, Dr Rachel Payne’s timely volume gives hope; it provides a valuable and inspirational resource for established and aspiring creative practitioners concerned with meaningful teaching and learning.” Richard Hickman, Fellow of NSEAD, UK “Those of us in the arts who need reassurance that our work matters, that our work remains essential to a holistic education for children, youth and adults, and that artist-teachers can reclaim, recover, and reimagine their professional practices in the midst of governmental controls – then, this is our book.” Rita Irwin, Professor of Art Education, The University of British Columbia, Canada More than most educators, art teachers have to negotiate two professional identities of artist and teacher. In Professional Learning for Artist Teachers: Pedagogy, Practice and Partnership in UK Contexts, Rachel Payne brings together innovative discourse from academics, artists, researchers and professionals working for cultural organisations to support the symbiosis of artist and teacher. Professional Learning for Artist Teachers is a book of balance, combining theory and practice to offer pedagogic strategies, and placing great importance on individual contexts while considering external factors. The text: •Comprises a wide range of bespoke perspectives and experiential content •Explores cultural partnerships within higher education programmes •Focuses on the UK context while examining how the field differs regionally, nationally and internationally Offering pedagogic and practical insights drawing from the contributing authors' extensive experience, this book will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students alike. Rachel Payne is the Deputy Head for Education and Student Experience at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Here she is also subject coordinator for the MA Education: Artist Teacher Practice, which is run in partnership with the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK.

Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School

Author : Nicholas Addison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113418378X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School written by Nicholas Addison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School advocates art, craft and design as useful, critical, transforming, and therefore fundamental to a plural society. It offers a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in education at KS3 and the 14-19 curriculum. It provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture. With reference to current debates, Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning, it raises issues, questions orthodoxies and identifies new directions. The chapters examine: ways of learning planning and resourcing attitudes to making critical studies values and critical pedagogy. The book is designed to provide underpinning theory and address issues for student teachers on PGCE and initial teacher education courses in Art and Design. It will also be of relevance and value to teachers in school with designated responsibility for supervision.

Musician-Teacher Collaborations

Author : Catharina Christophersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351804596
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Musician-Teacher Collaborations written by Catharina Christophersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord explores the dynamics between musicians and teachers within educational settings, illustrating how new musical worlds are discovered and accessed through music-in-education initiatives. An international array of scholars from ten countries present leading debates and issues—both theoretical and empirical—in order to identify and expand upon key questions: How are visiting musicians perceived by various stakeholders? What opportunities and challenges do musicians bring to educational spaces? Why are such initiatives often seen as "saving" children, music, and education? The text is organized into three parts: Critical Insights presents new theoretical frameworks and concepts, providing alternative perspectives on musician-teacher collaboration. Crossing Boundaries addresses the challenges faced by visiting musicians and teaching artists in educational contexts while discussing the contributions of such music-in-education initiatives. Working Towards Partnership tackles some dominant narratives and perspectives in the field through a series of empirically-based chapters discussing musician-teacher collaboration as a field of tension. In twenty chapters, Musician-Teacher Collaborations offers critical insights into the pedagogical role music plays within educational frameworks. The geographical diversity of its contributors ensures varied and context-specific arguments while also speaking to the larger issues at play. When musicians and teachers collaborate, one is in the space of the other and vice versa. Musician-Teacher Collaborations analyzes the complex ways in which these spaces are inevitably altered.

Journeys of Lifelong Learning in Music

Author : Rineke Smilde
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9463013628
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Journeys of Lifelong Learning in Music written by Rineke Smilde and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I as a musician and how can I contribute to society? It is the key question in this reflective handbook on Lifelong Learning in Music, in which Rineke Smilde reflects on today’s musicians’ emerging identity and its relationship with their professional performance. For many years she has been leading the research group Lifelong Learning in Music of Prince Claus Conservatoire (Hanze University Groningen), examining questions about the relationship between musicians and society. What for example, does engagement with new audiences mean for the different roles, learning and leadership of musicians? And how could we consider musicians’ learning environments? During the research into their learning processes further questions were raised and possible answers examined. In this reflective handbook fundamental concepts of Lifelong Learning in Music are clarified and discussed through examples of research projects which were explorative and innovative. A fair amount was learnt. Several key themes are identified such as reflective practice, artistry, excellence, reciprocity and artistic response. In particular, the multilayered roles of biographical learning and improvisation emerge in these examples. Special attention is given to the notion of the ‘reflexive conservatoire’, which is rooted within the framework of lifelong learning and includes attention to tacit knowing, artistic excellence and the crucial connection to the outside world. In the end, the author makes a strong case for all musicians developing an informed social role that reflects their own identity and underpins their professional performance. There is an emphasis on eliminating the false dichotomy between artistic practices as ‘l’art pour l’art’ or ‘social work’. This can only be achieved through convincing examples of artistic practices in social contexts, which inform musicians’ artistic growth and strengthen their personal and professional development and sense of identity. Here there is no either-or; on the contrary, tradition and innovation are married and strengthen each other by being complementary.

Understanding Art Education

Author : Nicholas Addison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134210183
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Art Education written by Nicholas Addison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about art and design as a subject in secondary schools? What contribution does it make to the wider curriculum? How can art and design develop the agency of young people? Understanding Art Education examines the theory and practice of helping young people learn in and beyond the secondary classroom. It provides guidance and stimulation for ways of thinking about art and design when preparing to teach and provides a framework within which teachers can locate their own experiences and beliefs. Designed to complement the core textbook Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School, which offers pragmatic approaches for trainee and newly-qualified teachers, this book suggests ways in which art and design teachers can engage reflexively with their continuing practice. Experts in the field explore: The histories of art and design education and their relationship to wider social and cultural developments Creativity as a foundation for learning Engaging with contemporary practice in partnership with external agencies The role of assessment in evaluating creative and collaborative practices Interdisciplinary approaches to art and design Developing dialogue as a means to address citizenship and global issues in art and design education. Understanding Art Education will be of interest to all students and practising teachers, particularly those studying at M Level, as well as teacher educators, and researchers who wish to reflect on their identity as an artist and teacher, and the ways in which the subject can inform and contribute to education and society more widely.

Dancing Across Borders

Author : Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000768775
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Across Borders written by Charlotte Svendler Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes chapters featuring different theoretical perspectives on dance and cultural diversity, alongside case narratives that show these perspectives in a specific cultural setting. In this way, each section charts the processes, change and transformation in the lives of young people through dance. Key themes include how student learning is enhanced by cultural diversity, experiential teaching and learning involving social, cross-cultural and personal dimensions. This conceptually aligns with the current UNESCO protocols that accent empathy, creativity, cooperation, collaboration alongside skills- and knowledge-based learning in an endeavour to create civic mindedness and a more harmonious world. This volume is an invaluable resource for teachers, policy makers, artists and scholars interested in pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics and interdisciplinary arts. By understanding the impact of these cross-border collaborative initiatives, readers can better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance education for the benefit of new generations.

The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures

Author : Michelle Ying Ling Huang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868558
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures written by Michelle Ying Ling Huang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures is a collection of essays examining the ways in which Chinese art has been circulated, collected, exhibited and perceived in Japan, Europe and America from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. Scholars and curators from East Asia, Europe and North America jointly present cutting-edge research on cultural integration and aesthetic hybridisation in relation to the collecting, display, making and interpretation of Chinese art and material culture. Stimulating examples within this volume emphasise the Western understanding of Chinese pictorial art, while addressing issues concerning the consumption of Chinese art and Chinese-inspired artistic productions from early times to the contemporary period; the roles of collector, curator, museum and auction house in shaping the taste, meaning and conception of art; and the art and cultural identity of the Chinese diaspora in a global context. This book espouses a multiplicity of aesthetic, philosophical, socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives, and encourages academics, students, art and museum practitioners to re-think their encounters with the objects, practices, people and institutions surrounding the study of Chinese art and culture in the past and the present.

Teaching Artistic Research

Author : Ruth Mateus-Berr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110665212
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Artistic Research written by Ruth Mateus-Berr and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With artistic research becoming an established paradigm in art education, several questions arise. How do we train young artists and designers to actively engage in the production of knowledge and aesthetic experiences in an expanded field? How do we best prepare students for their own artistic research? What comprises a curriculum that accommodates a changed learning, making, and research landscape? And what is the difference between teaching art and teaching artistic research? What are the specific skills and competences a teacher should have? Inspired by a symposium at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2018, this book presents a diversity of well-reasoned answers to these questions.

Teaching Art to Young Children

Author : Rob Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317495551
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Art to Young Children written by Rob Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can teachers develop best practice in art teaching? This fully updated third edition of Rob Barnes’ classic text blends practical ideas with sound principles of art education. Teachers and student teachers will find a range of ideas and tried and tested classroom examples; whilst for those looking for firm principles of art teaching and ‘best practice’ this book presents many important issues in art education with clarity and insight. Based on first-hand experience of teaching children, this text uses many examples from early years and primary school contexts, and tackles essential topics with realism and imagination such as: developing skills through using media how children draw encouraging artistic confidence in children producing original artwork and making use of digital imagery Rob Barnes’ unique approach encourages teachers to develop and think about art as part of a rich curriculum of learning, highlighting how it shouldn’t be taught in isolation but with purposeful links to other areas of the curriculum.

ArtShow

Author : Shirley Brice Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ArtShow written by Shirley Brice Heath and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "ArtShow tells four stories of learning and entrepreneurship by young people working in the arts in community organizations. In under-resourced neighborhoods-two rural, two urban, young people create portfolios, exhibitions, and performances to educate, entertain, and develop their communities"--Container.

Art Teaching

Author : George Szekely
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136835954
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Art Teaching written by George Szekely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, up-to-date art methods text presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle school.

University and School Connections

Author : Irma N. Guadarrama
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607526026
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book University and School Connections written by Irma N. Guadarrama and published by IAP. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for strengthening the connections between university-based teacher education programs and schools has never been greater in an era where standards and accountability systems often play centric roles in practically all aspects of the education field. Within this context, university educators and school practitioners have increasingly focused their attention on how professional development schools produce the multiplicity of outcomes that address the exigencies of quality programs for educating teachers and improving school achievement. In keeping with the mission of producing a collection of papers that inform, enlighten, and motivate readers, Volume 3 of the Professional Development Schools book series provides practitioners and researchers with articles on a substantial variety of themes on the most recent developments of the field. Among the thematic threads that organize Volume 3 are 1) using the national standards to examine and evaluate PDSs; 2) implementation, development and leadership issues relevant to beginning and experienced PDSs; 3) using innovative means for student assessments and mentoring in preservice education within a PDS context; 4) the impact of PDSs on teacher education and student achievement; and 5) cases of PDSs and the value of lessons learned. Volume 3 is similar to the previous two volumes in that it includes both practitioner and researcher strands, however, the authors in the current volume carry a sense of maturity and exudes a tone of confidence in their voice. Professional development schools research is an important aspect of teacher education. The collection of articles in Volume 3 contribute to our understanding of their essential qualities and offer assurance that innovation, change, and quality are building blocks in professional development schools.