Author:
Eric A Knutsen
Qualifications:
BA (Hons) Classics, Pacific Lutheran UniversityFinancial Planning CertificatePGCE, Sheffield Hallam University
Job Title:
Assistant Headteacher, School B
Supervisor:
Prof Brian HudsonThis dissertation illustrates a “protean” career, highlighting its impact one-learning developments overseen along this pathway, chosen for professional advancement. The theoretical framework is founded on aliterature review characterising and synthesising ideas related to the
‘Protean contract’
: cultural intelligence (CQ), organisational dynamics,team working, learning culture and learning technologies.This study adopts an autobiographical approach to inquiry, presentingdata that has been gathered through a portfolio of project reviews.Successes and learning points are equally reflected upon, using a PPDP(personal and professional development planning process) framework.This reflexive discourse has resulted in the initiation of actions for similar projects in two different contexts.As a teacher enrolled on the MSc in e-Learning, Multimedia, Consultancyand Change, I describe how I have fostered opportunities for multi-layered growth, ranging from personal to colleague to organisationallevels of growth, in different contexts for personal and professionaldevelopment. In having organisational aims taken forward, my schoolshave benefited from this evolving maturity, through projects in which myown thinking on e-learning has progressed.The concept of the protean contract, through which the individual isresponsible for one’s own professional growth, is developed andcontrasted with more traditional ideas of
job
progression. I set this
contract
before the reader as an alternative vocational pathway, found to be a more satisfying focus than straightforward, organisationally-biasedemployee promotion.
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