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A cross-cultural study of High School teachers’ tacit knowledge of interpersonal skills

Stemler, Stemler ORCID: 0000-0001-5211-5940, Elliott, Julian, O'Leary, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-6771-904X, Scully, Darina ORCID: 0000-0002-6076-717X, Karakolidis, Anastasios ORCID: 0000-0002-7460-7759 and Pitsia, Vasiliki ORCID: 0000-0002-8172-0397 (2018) A cross-cultural study of High School teachers’ tacit knowledge of interpersonal skills. In: AREA 2018 Annual Meeting, 13 - 17 Apr 2018, New York, USA.

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Abstract

Effective teachers are characterized not only by pedagogical abilities and subject area mastery, but also by interpersonal skills. Using the Tacit Knowledge Inventory for High School Teachers (TKI-HS) – a situational judgement test consisting of 11 challenging interpersonal scenarios – this study compared how experienced teachers in England (n=108), Ireland (n=45) and Russia (n=492) rated seven possible response options for each scenario, to examine the extent to which the concept of “skilled interpersonal behavior” varies across cultures. The results indicate that judgments of “bad” responses are more similar across these three cultures, whereas there seems to be less agreement about what constitutes a “good” response. The importance of teachers’ tacit knowledge and how it varies across cultural contexts are discussed.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of Policy & Practice
Published in: AERA Repository. . AERA.
Publisher:AERA
Official URL:https://www.aera.net/Publications/Online-Paper-Repository/AERA-Online-Paper-Repository
Copyright Information:© 2018 The Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:24451
Deposited On:13 May 2020 09:40 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 23 Sep 2022 10:12

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