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Toward a Theory of Generative Change in Culturally and Linguistically Complex Classrooms

Stanford University

This article situates the preparation of teachers to teach in culturally and linguistically complex classrooms in international contexts. It investigates long-term social and institutional effects of professional development and documents processes that facilitate teachers’ continued learning. Data from a decade-long study of U.S. and South African teachers supported a model of generative change that explained how professional development could be internalized by teachers, subsequently serving as a heuristic to help them organize their individual programs of instruction. Drawing primarily on two case studies, this article documents teachers’ development of generative knowledge and illustrates how they drew on that knowledge in thinking about students and teaching. The results were to facilitate generative thinking on the part of their students as well.

Key Words: culturally and linguistically complex classrooms • generative change • professional development • writing as a pedagogical tool

This version was published on March 1, 2009

American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, 45-72 (2009)
DOI: 10.3102/0002831208323277


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