This book presents analyses of the problems with existing theories of teacher learning, which for example draw on ideas of `communities of practice¿, and explores what network theories can be brought to the problem of how teachers and schools create and share new knowledge about practice.
This book presents analyses of the problems with existing theories of teacher learning, which for example draw on ideas of `communities of practice¿, and explores what network theories can be brought to the problem of how teachers and schools create and share new knowledge about practice.
Robert McCormick is Professor of Education at the Department of Education, The Open University. Alison Fox is at the Department of Education, University of Cambridge. Patrick Carmichael is Professor of Educational Research at the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure, Liverpool John Moores University. Richard Procter is a research student at the Institute of Education, London.
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Chapter 1. Educational Policy and Technological Contexts Chapter 2. Theorising Networks Chapter 3. Teacher Learning Chapter 4. Mapping Networks Chapter 5. Network Nodes: entities or relationships? Chapter 6. Network Links: interactions or transactions? Chapter 7. Network Traffic: creation and sharing Chapter 8. Networks in Context: spatial and temporal issues Chapter 9. Case Studies Chapter 10. Electronic Networks and Teacher Learning Chapter 11. Implications