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Direct linkMak, Barley; Pun, Shuk-Han – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This ethnographic study-cum-action research documents the cultivation of a community of practice for sustainable professional development among a group of 18 teachers of English as second language in Hong Kong through a series of planned efforts over 10?months. By juxtaposing the theory-driven planned efforts and the spontaneous actions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Sustainability, Faculty Development
Moate, Josephine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This research draws on sociocultural theories of learning and activity theory to explore the challenges faced by an innovative community of teachers in Central Finland. The aim of the teacher community was to develop a stream of foreign-language (FL)-mediated teaching and learning in the locality from kindergarten to upper secondary level. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Innovation, English (Second Language)
Twomey, Sarah J. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This qualitative study creates a case for teacher learning through increased access to digital knowledge and information made available through the Internet. I ask how reading environments, supported through online access to scholarly texts, might create intellectual engagement and transformative possibilities for teachers within their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, Teacher Education, Electronic Learning
Lieberman, Ann; Mace, Desiree H. Pointer – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
This paper describes the signature role played by accomplished, experienced teachers in professional learning communities, and the importance that these practitioners make their teaching public and shared. In so doing, the authors describe how accomplished practices can be shared between classrooms and between practitioners with varying levels of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Communities of Practice, Teacher Leadership
Rust, Frances; Meyers, Ellen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This paper focuses on the Teachers Network Leadership Institute (TNLI), an initiative designed to bring the voice of teachers into the educational policy arena through teacher action research. We view teachers' research on teaching and on school processes as an important means through which to expose the various sources of tension between policy…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Change, Teacher Researchers, Educational Policy
Zellermayer, Michal; Tabak, Edith – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This action research is targeted at academic researchers who facilitate the construction of communities of enquiry in school-university partnerships and are interested in understanding the process of such an enterprise as well as the knowledge constructed within such communities. Our action research study provides a possible road map for such a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Collegiality, Teacher Researchers, Communities of Practice
