Communities of Practice: Connecting What We Know with What We Do.

Buysse, Virginia; Sparkman, Karen L.; Wesley, Patricia W.

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Publication Date: 2003

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Communities of Practice: Connecting What We Know with What We Do.

Buysse, Virginia; Sparkman, Karen L.; Wesley, Patricia W.

Exceptional Children, v69 n3 p263-77 Spr 2003

This article examines the community of practice model as a framework for integrating educational research and practice. In addition to defining communities of practice and reflective practice, it describes two researcher-teacher partnerships and offers suggestions for transforming traditional methods of conducting research on educational practice. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Inquiry, Literacy, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Researchers, Teaching Models, Theory Practice Relationship

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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IES Cited: ED558154

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