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- Blossing, Ulf, et al.
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Professional Learning Communities in an Extended Version
- 2014
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Ingår i: Educational Leadership in Transition - the Global Perspectives, conference at Uppsala university.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A professional learning community (PLC) has increasingly appeared as an ideal image for school leaders when shaping a successful school organisation. A PLC is characterised by teachers sharing and critically reviewing their practices in an on-going collaborative, inclusive and learning-orientated way. Students represent the majority of a school organisation although they are rarely considered as participants in the PLC. The aim of our study was to explore an extended version of a PLC with a focus on participation of teachers and students working together in the classroom. The social theory of Wenger was used as a framework of the study. We have also made an explicit connection between PLC and the classroom as a community of practice. According to Wenger learning occurs as a function of legitimate participation in the negotiation of the work. Data was based on interviews with eleven teachers at a compulsory school working within a school wide project of professional learning. Teachers selected for the interviews had earlier in the project showed a close collaboration with students during their improvement work in the classroom. Three themes constituting the legitimate participation in the negotiation were used as an analytical tool: shared repertoire, mutual engagement and joint enterprise. 1) A shared repertoire was in the interviews expressed in terms of how teachers introduced and developed different tools for learning. The use of temporary and permanent tools seemed to change customary teaching into positive learning experiences. 2) A mutual engagement was in the interviews expressed in terms of how to establish relations and an atmosphere as well as respect for learning among students. 3) A joint enterprise was in the interviews expressed in terms of how students’ associations and experiences were used to illuminate the content knowledge in planning for learning. Collaboration between teacher and students were initially dependent on the teacher inviting the students to participate. However, gradually transferring invitations into negotiations shaped a community of teachers together with students. Knowledge of what constitute a PLC is most relevant for school leaders when planning for improvement, especially how PLCs interact with and engage students in the learning process. To promote the building of a PLC our findings showed important qualities for school leaders to be considered in organising teachers´ work and learning.
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- Wennergren, Ann-Christine, 1957-, et al.
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Teachers and students together in a professional learning community
- 2017
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - Abingdon, Oxon : Informa UK Limited. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 61:1, s. 47-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Students represent the majority of the people in a school organisation, but are rarely considered as participants in literature on professional learning communities (PLC). This article explored a PLC with the legitimate participation of students in the classroom. Data was based on interviews with 11 teachers. Community of practice theory provides 3 dimensions that were used as analytical tools: shared repertoire, mutual engagement, and joint enterprise. Shared repertoire refers to how teachers introduce and develop tools for learning; mutual engagement to how to establish relationships and atmosphere with a respect for learning; and joint enterprise to how students’ associations and experiences are used to shape content knowledge in planning for learning. We conclude that the theory of community of practice is useful to describe and understand the formation of a PLC.
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- Wennergren, Ann-Christine, 1957-, et al.
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The Relation Between Tools used in Action research and the Zone of Proximal Development
- 2006
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Ingår i: Educational action research. - Essex, UK : Taylor & Francis. - 0965-0792 .- 1747-5074. ; 14:4, s. 547-568
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes a national school improvement project involving five compulsory schools for hard‐of‐hearing pupils, located in different parts of Sweden. Using action research, the teachers tried to change the communication patterns among the pupils by changing their own classroom practices, In this process the teachers tested and used different tools, such as writing, shadowing and facilitating each other, over a three‐year period. The purpose of this article is to examine how tools used in action research can be used to promote learning in relation to the concept of the zone of proximal development. The theoretical framework of the study is based on action research, as a collaborative way of creating knowledge, and on sociocultural learning theories. The basic assumption is that teachers, by using different tools, also challenge each other’s learning. The results show the importance of internalising tools that become owned by individuals or communities of practise. To be able to assume an active role in the zone of proximal development, and to produce knowledge collaboratively, a meaning‐making process was needed. It was found that this could be realised if the participants had an awareness of how to function as a critical friend among colleagues. Furthermore, the results revealed that, by using different tools, different voices can be heard. Three categories of voices were identified. © 2006 Educational Action Research
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- Wennergren, Ann-Christine, 1957-, et al.
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Trepartssamtal med digitala observationsunderlag – en framgångsfaktor för lärarstudenters deltagande och resonemang
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordvei: Nordisk tidsskrift i veiledningspedagogikk. - Bergen : University of Bergen. - 2535-3047. ; 8:1, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Syftet med studien var att generera kunskap om digitala trepartssamtal för utveckling av lärarstudenters praktiska yrkeskunnande. Vi har undersökt vad som kännetecknar lärarstudenters resonemang om sin undervisning i trepartssamtal. Studien genomfördes under studenters sista period av verksamhetsförlagd utbildning där ett nytt distanskoncept för trepartssamtal prövades. Analysen av 16 samtal, vilka baserades på digitala observationsunderlag, visar att merparten av deltagarna hade granskat och reflekterat över underlagen, att studenten fick stort talutrymme och att några av egen kraft förde utvecklade resonemang om sin undervisning. Tre teman kunde urskiljas: studenter motiverar sina didaktiska val, studenter ger olika handlingsalternativ och studenter identifierar konsekvenser för eleverna. Vi konstaterar att det finns ett samband mellan kvaliteten i studenters resonemang över sin undervisning, delade observationsunderlag samt utrymme i tid mellan observation och handledning. Det implicerar att de flesta observationsunderlag innehöll tillräcklig god kvalitet för att kunna resonera över undervisning som legitima deltagare.
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