Teachers’ Resource Systems: Their Constitution, Structure and Evolution

An important facet of teachers’ work, done outside the classroom, involves searching for, selecting, and gathering resources for lesson and assessment preparation, for inquiring about institutional requirements and constraints, and for professional development. Teachers’ work with resources undergoes deep changes in the era of the development of digital technology that results in a profusion of digital resources available over the Internet. Moreover, various communities of teachers producing and sharing resources emerge, which impacts strongly their work with resources. This chapter contributes to the investigation of teachers’ resource systems. Based on the contributions and discussions in Working Group 1 and drawing on the documentational approach to didactics, it aims at providing an insight into three aspects of teachers’ resource systems: their constitution, structure, and evolution.