There is an increasing expectation that academic and clinical nurses will contribute to disciplinary and professional discourses through scholarly writing. However, the difficulties and challenges associated with writing for publication mean that many papers will never be written. This current paper describes an innovative approach developed to support skill development and outcomes in writing ...

The school has increasingly become the focus for teacher professional development and school leaders are maximizing teacher learning through restructuring time and meeting structures to create additional opportunities for collegial work within the school day. This research paper is the second part of a three stage research design investigating South Australian teachers’ experiences of school-ba...

We posit that determining the social goals and intentions of dialogue participants is crucial for understanding discourse taking place on social media. In particular, we examine the social goals of being collegial and being adversarial. Through our early experimentation, we found that speech and dialogue acts are not able to capture the complexities and nuances of the social intentions of disco...

The literature indicates that collaborative activities can support professional learning (PL) for academics teaching in higher education (HE). Nevertheless, limited approaches collegial PL exist be embedded the day-to-day work of busy academics. This paper reports on an evidence-based approach to practice was undertaken develop authentic, structured, involved a review and synthesis relevant lit...

The current study explores teacher leaders’ emotions and its relationship with professionalism collegial trust in the Chinese context. A sample of 477 leaders China responded to three measures, namely, leader emotions, colleagues. To analyse data, confirmatory factor analysis structural equation modelling were utilised. results confirmed hypotheses on relationships between constructs. Specifica...