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Morgan Ana Mendieta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Patriarchal ideologies and structures helped to shape the public school institution at the onset of compulsory education in the United States and continue to circulate within educational discourses today, causing harmful consequences for the workforce made up of mostly women that is tasked with educating our nation's youth (Jones, 2020, Accepted…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Coaching (Performance), Feminism, Educational Practices
Chelsea Wentworth; Diane M. Doberneck; Jessica V. Barnes-Najor; Mindy Smith; Jen Hirsch; Mallet R. Reid – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Feminist community-engaged scholars and practitioners value deep relationship building with their community partners, which can be challenging during periods of disruption. Increasingly, disruptions occur at multiple levels (e.g., pandemics, civil unrest, community/campus violence, partner staffing and leadership turnover, experiences of illness…
Descriptors: Feminism, Community Involvement, Outreach Programs, Barriers
Yasushi Maruyama; Miyuki Okamura – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
This paper discusses what constitutes good teaching, taking as its cue the 'aesthetic' concept treated in everyday aesthetics and 'internal good' accounted by McIntyre. Teaching is viewed as practice, not merely as a basic action, due to its epistemological nature as everyday work. What everyday aesthetics teaches us is that even in the practice…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Theories, Aesthetics, Instructional Effectiveness
Laura Cruz; Hillary H. Steiner; Clare Cruz – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Although the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has been described as the signature pedagogy of educational development (a professional field focused on support for teaching and learning in higher education), there is little systematic evidence of the scale and scope of the SoTL support practices that centers for teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
Carey, Christopher J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Professional learning communities (PLCs) serve as a mechanism for schools and districts to promote teacher collaboration, collective inquiry, and a context to focus on student-centered learning processes. The study examined the perceptions of certificated staff and administrators pertaining to this practice. Three research questions guided this…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Administrators, Attitudes, Educational Practices
Chris James Anderson; Lee Buddy Jr.; Erica Hillhouse-Hagood – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2023
Advocates of Invitational Education theory and practice believe consistent application of an ICORT mindset upon an institution's people, places, policies, programs, and processes (5Ps) can optimize and sustain success for all stakeholders. Given a professional learning community (PLC) is impacted by and also influences all of an institution's 5Ps,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Theories, School Effectiveness, Educational Practices
Castillo, Jose M.; Garbacz, Andy; Black, William R.; Davis, Dia; Wingate, Emily; Furjanic, David – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2023
Research on organizational consultation in schools demonstrates increased implementation of evidence-based practices by consultees and improved outcomes for students. Implementation science increasingly has been adopted as a framework for organizational consultants to use to promote uptake of evidence-based practices in schools. Although research…
Descriptors: Consultants, Evidence Based Practice, Teachers, Prior Learning
Zhang, Jia; Huang, Qinan; Ye, Juyan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
This study investigated the mediating effects of professional learning community (PLC) components on the relationship between leadership practices and teacher collective efficacy from the perspective of Chinese principals. Survey data were collected from 878 school principals. The results revealed that leadership practices significantly and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Communities of Practice, Leadership
Robin Sutherland-Harris; Ameera Ali; Eliana Elkhoury – International Journal for Academic Development, 2025
We explore the role of trust in fostering equitable assessment practices in higher education, as navigated by academic developers. Trust emerges as foundational for embracing equity and inclusivity in assessment. Drawing on our personal experiences, the authors discuss the necessity of trust, factors supporting and undermining it, and strategies…
Descriptors: Educational Development, College Faculty, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
Mandy Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study identified the experiences of middle school teachers in the Southeastern Louisiana participating in professional learning communities, using the social constructivism theory. The study uncovers the various factors that are present that influence instructional practices and student learning outcomes. Ten middle school teachers engage in…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Communities of Practice, Middle School Teachers, Influences
Jessica Ford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study aims to explore teachers' perceptions of professional learning communities and how they feel it impacts their effectiveness as secondary mathematics teachers in two instructional domains--content knowledge and pedagogy. Teachers spend a substantial amount of their time engaged in Professional Learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Teacher Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers
Yariv Feniger; Jenna Goldshtein; Dana Vedder-Weiss – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Test-based accountability (TBA) draws on a managerialist ideology that emphasises standards, constant measurement, and external motivation for improvement. It stands in sharp contrast to the idea of professional learning communities (PLCs) that aim to mobilise teachers' internal motivation and willingness to cooperate with peers to facilitate a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Standardized Tests, Accountability, Intervention
Erch Selimi; Carl T. Woods – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
This paper explores how an enskilment approach could be harnessed to guide coach education in Australian football (soccer). To do so, we first overview current coach education practices in Australian football, looking specifically into the foundation of Football Australia's coach education model, rooted in a transmissive metaphor. Then, drawing on…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
Creating a Home: Promoting Equitable Academic Discourse by Establishing Teacher Agency and Co-Design
Britt, Lyndsay B. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
If students are to have an equitable opportunity to talk and communicate understandings, reasoning, and ideas, teachers need to use instructional practices that promote equitable academic discourse in the students' academic home -- the school. Students need to feel and know they are challenged and supported to be their best, just like a school…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
Lisa Lundgren; Kent J. Crippen – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
The theoretical framework of communities of practice (CoP) is often used for framing research into online communities. However, there is an absence of measures and empirical work that evaluates knowledge-sharing within such communities. This represents a substantial gap in our understanding of informal learning for diverse people and in the case…
Descriptors: Science Education, Communities of Practice, Informal Education, Educational Practices