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Cultivating a Teacher Community of Practice for Sustainable Professional Development: Beyond Planned Efforts
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Mak, Barley; Pun, Shuk-Han – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This ethnographic study-cum-action research documents the cultivation of a community of practice for sustainable professional development among a group of 18 teachers of English as second language in Hong Kong through a series of planned efforts over 10?months. By juxtaposing the theory-driven planned efforts and the spontaneous actions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Sustainability, Faculty Development