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Rebecca Buchanan; Liliana Herakova; Leah Hakkola; Mollie Ruben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Research on communities of practice (CoP) focused on teaching have shown that they are valuable venues for collaborative sensemaking for practitioners. This article reports on a study examining how members of an equity focused CoP at a predominantly white institution in the United States co-constructed meaning around issues of equity through…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Equal Education, Social Justice, Predominantly White Institutions
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Peck, Frederick A.; Renga, Ian Parker; Wu, Ke; Erickson, David – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
In this paper, we revisit a long-running conversation about situated learning and the design of environments for disciplinary engagement. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, scholars advanced an anthropological critique of the then-dominant acquisitionist paradigm of formal schooling with a situated view focused on membership in communities and…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Educational Environment, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Teachers
Christy M. Worhach – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that students receive a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). Yet, research shows that middle school teachers do not feel prepared to work with students with special needs in the inclusive classroom (Mackey, 2014; Nagro et al., 2017;…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
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Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume – Power and Education, 2020
Cross-professional collaboration in schools is a prerequisite for professional teaching practice and thus for professional development in many post-industrialized societies, yet little is known about how teachers with different professional backgrounds make meaning of and internalize cross-professional collaboration and how inequities in…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Situated Learning, Learning Theories
Procter, Joe Don – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The focus of this study was to explore high school teachers' perceptions of self-directed professional development learning as participants in a community of practice. The questions for this study were: How did directing their own learning influence high school teachers' perceptions of their professional development? How did participating in a…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
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Pais Marden, Mariolina; Herrington, Jan – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Actively encouraging foreign language learners to establish a meaningful connection with the target language culture--by engaging in authentic activities with other learners and native speakers in real-world communicative contexts--is a critical goal of foreign language education. This paper describes a design-based research study that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication