TY - JOUR
T1 - Professional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education
T2 - insights from a regional survey
AU - O Brien, Emma
AU - Moore, Gwen
AU - Costelloe, Laura
AU - O’Sullivan, Íde
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The character of professional development offered to those who teach in higher education is changing. There is a shift towards the adoption of more flexible, work-based, apprenticeship models, where experiential routes are increasingly valued. This paper seeks to understand the factors that impact engagement in academic professional development. A quantitative study reveals that experience, years of service, and discipline have little impact on educators’ professional development preferences, nor on the recognition of individual needs and contextual nuances to ensure optimal engagement in academic professional development. We demonstrate that it is not possible to profile professional development pathways in these ways, thus strengthening the evidence base for a flexible approach to it.
AB - The character of professional development offered to those who teach in higher education is changing. There is a shift towards the adoption of more flexible, work-based, apprenticeship models, where experiential routes are increasingly valued. This paper seeks to understand the factors that impact engagement in academic professional development. A quantitative study reveals that experience, years of service, and discipline have little impact on educators’ professional development preferences, nor on the recognition of individual needs and contextual nuances to ensure optimal engagement in academic professional development. We demonstrate that it is not possible to profile professional development pathways in these ways, thus strengthening the evidence base for a flexible approach to it.
KW - barriers
KW - enablers
KW - preference
KW - Professional development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124894419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1360144X.2022.2036155
DO - 10.1080/1360144X.2022.2036155
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124894419
SN - 1360-144X
VL - 28
SP - 240
EP - 257
JO - International Journal for Academic Development
JF - International Journal for Academic Development
IS - 3
ER -