Towards a Sociocultural Approach on Teachers’ Professional Development in Bahrain

Abstract

This paper reviews the concept of professional development and how it has been influenced by the major educational theories. Mainly, this paper argues for a call of a different perspective of the concept professional development in education and provides a critical rationale through certain actions and stands that were initiated by some parties in the domain. The paper also concludes with a proposed a new paradigm for viewing teacher continual professional development from a socio-cultural point of view.