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Wangbei Ye; Wanya Liang; Huiling Wang – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Studies have examined teachers' experience of organisational learning in school-based contexts but have seldom investigated teachers' cross-school learning processes. This paper explores the dynamic processes of teacher learning in cross-school settings led by local teaching and research officers. Qualitative comparative case studies based on…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Context Effect, Foreign Countries
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Xue, Sijia; Hu, Xiao; Chi, Xinli; Zhang, Jiangzhi – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This study explored how a group of higher education teachers in China used WeChat to build an online Community of Practice (OCoP), which supported their professional learning. A qualitative study was designed. Data were collected from multiple sources including online interaction excerpts, teachers' reflections, classroom observation, and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Shi, Lijuan – Professional Development in Education, 2022
This study uses positioning theory to explore the reasons for Chinese learning assistants' misalignment with school pedagogical ideology and their resistance to professional learning at an international English-Chinese dual-language school. This study reveals that inconsistencies between three types of positioning practices (other-positioning,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Professional Development, International Schools, Ideology