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Bowman, Richard F. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Conversational competence is a process, not a state. Ithaca does not exist, only the voyage to Ithaca. Vibrant campuses are a series of productive conversations. At its core, communicative competence in academic settings mirrors a collective search for meaning regarding the purpose and direction of a campus community. Communicative competence…
Descriptors: Competence, Organizational Communication, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Styles
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Dymoke, Sue – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This paper explores the impact of a Spoken Word Education Programme (SWEP hereafter) on young people's engagement with poetry in a group of schools in London, UK. It does so with reference to the secondary Discourses of school-based learning and the Spoken Word community, an artistic "community of practice" into which they were being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Oral Language, Oral Reading
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Horn, Ilana Seidel; Little, Judith Warren – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
The authors investigate how conversational routines, or the practices by which groups structure work-related talk, function in teacher professional communities to forge, sustain, and support learning and improvement. Audiotaped and videotaped records of teachers' work group interactions, supplemented by interviews and material artifacts, were…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Practices, Professional Development, Protocol Materials
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Calderwood, Patricia; Mazza, Morgan Aboud; Ruel, Abiah Clarke; Favano, Amy; Jean-Guilluame, Vonick; McNeill, Daniel; Stenerson, Carolyn – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
In this paper we examine aspects of the construction of authentic membership, competence, and sense of shared purpose within a professional community of educators accomplished by a class of pre-service teachers during a spontaneous electronic conversation. Implications for teacher education are considered.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Justice, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication