Development paths of university teachers during a pedagogical development course.

The aim of the study is to analyse the development of university teachers' pedagogical expertise during a five-month, 10-credit pedagogical development course. The data consists of reflection diaries of 18 participants who participated in the course. The method of content analysis was applied to identify different development paths from the reflection diaries. The paths differ from each other in terms of development in teaching practices, conceptions and teacher identity. The results suggest that some teachers resist changing their understanding about teaching and learning while others describe strong changes both in their conceptions of teaching and learning, as well as in their teacher identity. These results are reflected in light of boundary crossing theory presented by Akkerman and Bakker (2011). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]