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Direct linkAnders Astrup Christensen – Professional Development in Education, 2025
The concept of professional learning communities (PLCs) has received considerable attention in research as well as in school practice since the late 1990s. PLCs have been positively associated with a variety of outcomes for both teachers and students, but differences in the way the concept is operationalised, and the fact that most of the research…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Surveys, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
Tal Carmi; Ainat Guberman; Rachel Cohen Brandeis – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have become the gold standard of teachers' professional learning. However, their success is far from guaranteed. Little is known regarding the processes that groups of learners undergo to become fully-fledged PLCs. This study followed a teachers' PLC over three years. It shows how the facilitator learned to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Processes
Aspasia Dania; Deborah Tannehill – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This study builds on the Spaces of Wellbeing Theory to investigate the circumstances under which community participation can affect teachers' capacity to perform wellbeing in anticipation of their daily circumstances. Participants were 10 in-service physical education teachers, members of a Learning Community (LC) of cooperating teachers who…
Descriptors: Well Being, Communities of Practice, Physical Education Teachers, Cooperating Teachers
Corina González-Weil; María Isabel Reyes-Espejo; Paulina Bravo González; Felipe Acuña Ruz; Fabián Fernández Araneda – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are valuable spaces for collaboration and reflection to promote the transformation of teaching practice and resilience to change. In PLCs that are sustained over time, trust-building is a key element. In Latin America, school systems and educational models are based on mistrust, which in Chile is consistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Assel Sharimova; Elaine Wilson – Professional Development in Education, 2025
As a source of social capital, teachers' professional networks have been linked in the research literature with professional learning. Social media platforms have increased teachers' professional networking opportunities, suggesting more space for informal learning. Capturing the experiences of 41 school teachers in Kazakhstan using thematic…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Social Media
Javiera Marfán; Ngee Derk Tiong – Professional Development in Education, 2025
At a time of increasing global uncertainty, it is critical that school systems succeed at transforming their educational aims and practices. This article focuses on the Chilean System of Educational Quality Assurance as a policy case aimed at expanding the purpose of education by incorporating indicators of social and personal development (ISPD)…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Communities of Practice, Educational Policy
