Annual Report 2013, Istanbul
In 2013, Network 1 offered 41 sessions that included 91 paper presentations, four symposia (six sessions, 28 papers), one research workshop and five posters within the programme of 14 sessions (Tuesday noon through Friday). Attendance at sessions varied from seven to 40.
Network 1 presenters came from 33 countries: 17 in the European Union and six other European countries as well as from Australia, Brazil, China, Singapore, Dubai, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Turkey, USA. There were especially high numbers of presentations from Finland, UK, Norway and Germany.
Session themes included induction and mentoring; different aspects of teachers’ and organizational learning; leadership development; contexts that support or hinder CPD; theories and dilemmas; ethics and contexts that require CPD (e.g., multilingualism, diversity); collegiality; school and organisational development and sustainability; teacher assessment; epistemic beliefs; ecologies of practices; action research; the role of feedback; professional identity; policy; professional development centres and communities; theorethical and practical aspects of researching CPD; gender issues; early years development; and CPD in nursing and other professions. A research workshop was held on creative hermeneutics.
Symposia were held on teacher induction (two sessions); educational reform in Kazakhstan (two sessions); teacher voice, self-efficacy and leadership; and learning to become a teacher. There were Posters about the role of librarians; workplace learning in the midst of change; leaders as teacher developers; and reverse mentoring.
The high quality of most of presentations, symposia, workshop and posters has to be mentioned.
However, this year several presenters cancelled in late July, August or at the last minute or did not show up for their paper and gave no warning or apology for this. This meant that some sessions had only two rather than three presentations, and the session titles did not reflect the content.