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Kemmis, Stephen – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2005
The notion of "professional practice knowledge" has been significant in some recent explorations of the nature of practice and discussions of the development of practitioners and practices. This article begins by outlining "professional practice knowledge" as a window into practice, but suggests that practice has features that…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Reflection
Carroll, David – New Educator, 2005
Dispositions for teaching have become a key issue in teacher education reform. Relatively little attention, however, has been devoted to studying how dispositions for teaching develop. This article argues that acquiring appropriate professional dispositions for teaching is a socio-cultural process that benefits from both formal and informal…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change
Najafi, Hedieh; Clarke, Anthony – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
This interpretive case study explores an attempt to add an online component--the On-line Literacy Project--to a successful face-to-face professional development community. Participants were six members of the Literacy Project, which was carried out in the school board of a western Canadian city. The principal theoretical framework informing the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Educational Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Curry, Marnie Willis – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: This study builds upon research on teacher professional communities and high school restructuring reforms. It employs a conceptual framework that draws upon theories of "community of practice" and "community of learners." Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This study analyzes how teachers' professional inquiry…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change, Professional Development
Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: This paper discusses insights from a study of women working, or seeking or preparing for work, in the information technology (IT) field. At issue is how and whether alternative career pathways and informally acquired skills and knowledge, as well as the operation of gender in learning and work, are acknowledged by employers, colleagues…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Females, Information Technology, Education Work Relationship
Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
This paper takes a large-scale social perspective in describing a national project in Australia that was premised on local school communities working together and contributing ideas for the benefit of their students, and potentially, the whole country. The project was intended to improve schools' capacity for educating boys, and in the long-term,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Internet
Duran, Mesut; Runvand, Stein; Fossum, Paul R. – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2009
This exploratory study examines the impact of a professional development program where a K-16 networked learning community approach was implemented to provide training and support for technology integration in science education. The study presents findings from a three-year project with five cohort groups that included 17 student teachers, 17…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Science Teachers, Cooperating Teachers
Dukes, Lyman, III; Jones, Brett D. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2007
Online discussion boards have the potential to provide significant support to beginning teachers; thus, we designed an online collaborative consultation community to provide mentor support to university students enrolled in an alternative certification program. The results suggest that although students in alternative certification programs will…
Descriptors: Mentors, Alternative Teacher Certification, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice
Meirink, Jacobiene A.; Meijer, Paulien C.; Verloop, Nico – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
A considerable amount of current research on teaching and teacher education focuses on teacher collaboration. Teacher collaboration is presumed to be a powerful learning environment for teachers' professional development. However, empirical research about how teachers actually learn in collaborative settings is lacking. In this study, learning…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Craig, Cheryl J. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article connects teachers' experiences of reflective school portfolio development to the idea of teachers' knowledge communities, the different groups and individuals with whom teachers negotiate meaning for their stories of experience, lived and told, and re-lived and re-told, over time. The reflective analysis makes the case that the…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Communities of Practice, Teaching Experience
Mascall, Blair – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2007
In reviewing research from three successive research studies in one school district in Ontario, Canada, I trace the influence of leadership on the building of capacity in schools and the district. In so doing, it has become clear that the style of leadership has shifted to a more distributed approach, in which more teachers are becoming engaged in…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship
Elsey, Helen; Lathlean, Judith – Educational Action Research, 2006
The relevance of action research to organisational change within contemporary health services in the United Kingdom is discussed in this article. Two examples of collaborative community-based studies are presented: one exploring ways to encourage community participation within a health and regeneration programme and the other considering the types…
Descriptors: Health Services, Action Research, Health Personnel, Community Involvement
Murphey, Tim, Ed.; Sato, Kazuyoshi, Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2004
This volume emphasizes that TESOL professionals can accomplish a great deal as members of inquisitive, cooperative communities. The contributors tell stories of their struggles and achievements, describing teacher learning communities and exploring how teachers might cultivate more collaborative communities in their lives. [Additional Volumes from…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Communities of Practice, Language Teachers
Dow, Wendy – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2005
This paper examines the rationale for the Woodworking Skills section of a course on Practical Craft Skills which forms part of the new technology curriculum in Scottish Schools. Introduced with the intention of making technology subjects more accessible to a wider range of pupils, the subject has potential for contributing to a more inclusive…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Handicrafts, Design, Woodworking
Jeffrey, Lynn; Hegarty, Bronwyn; Kelly, Oriel; Penman, Merrolee; Coburn, Dawn; McDonald, Jenny – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Self Efficacy