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Hornsby, Michael; Vigers, Dick – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Educational initiatives in many minority language communities in Europe and beyond are producing 'new speakers' of the languages in question. The status of such speakers is often contested, however, and many people who have been through immersion education in a minority language can find themselves on the fringes of the language community of which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Welsh
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Abrams, Sandra Schamroth; Lammers, Jayne C. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Focusing on ways a common endeavor brings people together, Gee offered the concept of affinity spaces, which suggests that open participation without exclusion or membership is possible. This theory contrasts with Lave and Wenger's communities of practice, which called attention to situated, hierarchical participatory practices.…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Video Games, Interpersonal Attraction, Communities of Practice
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Panke, Stefanie; Stephens, John – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
How can educators leverage blogs and other social media spaces to encourage a reflective, critical discourse about civic engagement that fosters a true learning exchange over promoting one's own ideas? This article reports upon a single case study of the "Community Engagement Learning Exchange," a multi-author blog on civic engagement.…
Descriptors: Reflection, Citizen Participation, Instructional Materials, Discourse Communities
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Getz, Cheryl; Tessema, Kedir Assefa – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
Leadership Studies courses often face challenges of educating students for a focused area of specialization. We challenged this by offering an innovative leadership course whose aim was to socialize graduate students into their discourse communities. In this paper, we describe a course and the study we conducted to learn from the process and…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Graduate Students, Leadership Training, Administrator Education
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Murata, Aki; Siker, Jody; Kang, Bona; Baldinger, Evra M.; Kim, Hee-Jeong; Scott, Mallika; Lanouette, Kathryn – Cognition and Instruction, 2017
This study investigated different math-talk facilitations, and conceptualized the teachers' talk moves for productive student mathematics discussions. Our findings suggest that students' strategy development is supported by talk moves coordinating a wide range of student strategies, representations and discussions that are at a process-level and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Mathematics, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
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Sedova, Klara – Teacher Development, 2017
This article draws on data from an action research project carried out in a lower secondary school environment in the Czech Republic. The project involved the implementation of a teacher professional development programme aimed at transforming teacher-student communication and reinforcing opportunities for student participation in classroom…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Teacher Behavior, Behavior Change, Classroom Communication
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Charteris, Jennifer – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Neoliberal policy objectives perpetuate an audit culture at both school and system levels. The associated focus on performativity and accountability can result in reductive and procedural interpretations of classroom assessment for learning (AfL) practices. Set in a New Zealand AfL professional development context, this research takes an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Education Programs, Faculty Development, Critical Theory
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Bolhuis, E. D.; Schildkamp, K.; Voogt, J. M. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Using data in a professional learning community is a promising form of professional development. In this study, we followed a data team of teacher educators, who systematically tried to improve the education of student teachers (by decreasing first year drop-out). By conducting a single case study, we investigated the data team participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Observation, Interviews