Leveraging Untapped Potential: Continuing Professional Development as a Tool for Creating Positive Culture at Schools of Foreign Languages in Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorOzer, Omer
dc.contributor.authorPopp, Cecile
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:30:28Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:30:28Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on a series of carefully curated professional development (PD) activities with the secondary purpose of building and maintaining a positive school culture. The study took place in a school of foreign languages (SFL) at a state university in Turkey. Twenty-five Turkish and international teachers participated. The researchers collected data over a period of six months using a mixed-methods approach: a two-stage survey and semi-structured interviews. Three main themes emerged from the analysis; (1) the basic tenets of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), (2) factors that foster positive school culture, and (3) factors that undermine positive school culture. The results suggest that carefully curated PD has a positive impact on school culture; a combination of formal and informal PD offerings formed desired habits of mind among instructors. Moreover, instructors indicated a preference for peer-led PD. Thus, we suggest that other SFLs in Turkey likewise harness the untapped potential of the CPD Unit. © 2022, School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. All rights reserved.
dc.description.sponsorshipScientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Adana Alparslan Turkes Science and Technology University, (20123001)
dc.identifier.doi10.61508/refl.v29i1.258859
dc.identifier.endpage147
dc.identifier.issn1513-5934
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85130779381
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage130
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.61508/refl.v29i1.258859
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1645
dc.identifier.volume29
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSchool of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
dc.relation.ispartofrEFLections
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectContinuing professional
dc.subjectdevelopment unit
dc.subjectHigher education
dc.subjectLanguage teaching
dc.subjectProfessional development
dc.subjectSchool culture
dc.titleLeveraging Untapped Potential: Continuing Professional Development as a Tool for Creating Positive Culture at Schools of Foreign Languages in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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