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This chapter is devoted to teachers. A rural school, a bit isolated from the capital city Helsinki, was chosen as a case study. Interviews with teachers allow us to tackle the following issues: what are their experiences of CPD? What are their critiques of it? What needs do they have? What do their discourses on CPD tell us about the pitfalls of Finnish education? The data was collected a few months after major curricular reforms in Finland and there seemed to be frustration amongst the teachers, especially in relation to the lack of proper CPD. At least one of the teachers was very active in self-training.
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Li, Y., Dervin, F. (2018). Teachers’ Views on CPD. In: Continuing Professional Development of Teachers in Finland. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95795-1_6
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