{"content":[{"text":"School Cultures as Contexts for Informal Teacher Learning","bbox":{"left":0.168431,"top":0.106891,"width":0.6629940000000001,"height":0.02231599999999999}},{"text":"By","bbox":{"left":0.488431,"top":0.168165,"width":0.02313700000000002,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Elena Jurasaite-Harbison, Ph.D.","bbox":{"left":0.208235,"top":0.237862,"width":0.250981,"height":0.016779000000000016}},{"text":"Lesley A. Rex, Ph.D.","bbox":{"left":0.641373,"top":0.237862,"width":0.16725500000000004,"height":0.016779000000000016}},{"text":"Department of Curriculum and Teaching \n School of Education and Allied Human Services \n Hofstra University","bbox":{"left":0.159034,"top":0.271212,"width":0.349569,"height":0.04724699999999998}},{"text":"University of Michigan \n 2014 School of Education \n University of Michigan","bbox":{"left":0.622745,"top":0.27271,"width":0.204314,"height":0.05162800000000001}},{"text":"Abstract","bbox":{"left":0.463529,"top":0.424074,"width":0.07280400000000004,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"This study descriptively compares international social contexts for teacher workplace \n informal professional learning from the teachers’ perspectives. Set in elementary schools \n in the U.S. and Lithuania, the study illustrates how teachers make sense of and engage in \n learning within the historical, political and administrative contexts within which they \n work. A sociocultural framework brings into view different opportunities for teacher \n informal learning. These appear in teachers’ discourse about their schools’ missions, \n building structures, classroom environments, organizational arrangements, traditions, and \n professional relationships as referenced in teachers’ discourse. The study argues for the \n importance of acknowledging teacher informal learning as a method of career-long \n professional development and for considering how to build and sustain the infrastructure \n necessary to maintain such development at teachers’ work places.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.458619,"width":0.7019599999999999,"height":0.19102200000000003}},{"text":"Key words: Teachers’ workplace informal professional learning, school culture, learning \n contexts, discourse analysis, comparative international study.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.737407,"width":0.6964699999999999,"height":0.03420299999999998}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.495098,"top":0.937407,"width":0.00980399999999998,"height":0.01677899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}