Learning in school-university partnership : sociocultural perspectives / Amy B.M. Tsui, Gwyn Edwards, Fran Lopez-Real ; with Tammy Kwan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsui, Amy.

Contributor:

Edwards, Gwyn.

Lopez-Real, Francis J.

Kwan, Tammy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College-school cooperation.

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

English teachers--Training of.

English teachers.

Educational sociology.

Physical Description:

xi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2009]

Summary:

This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes-school-university partnership, and sociocultural and social theories of learning-have both been treated extensively in the literature. It is the bringing together of these two themes that makes this book unique.

In this examination of an evolving model of school-university partnership, the Unified Professional Development Project in Hong Kong, the authors analyze the learning that takes place as the participants (student teachers, mentor teachers, and university supervisors) mutually engage in the enterprise of improving teaching and learning in schools, developing shared practices, and creating new communities of practice. Although it describes one specific context, the book is not just about this locale. Rather, the Unified Professional Development Project is used as a context for theorizing more generally a social theory of learning for school-university partnerships that is relevant to any other similar context.

This book will interest teacher educators, researchers in teacher education and teacher development, policy makers, and school practitioners who are involved in school-university partnerships.

Contents:

Contexts for learning in school-university partnership / Gwyn Edwards, Amy B.M. Tsui and Philip Stimpson

Sociocultural perspectives of learning / Amy B.M. Tsui, Fran Lopez-Real and Gwyn Edwards

On becoming a member of a community of practice / Gwyn Edwards and Amy B.M. Tsui

Mentoring, learning and identity formation / Tammy Kwan, Fran Lopez-Real and Amy B.M. Tsui

Tripartite conferences: positioning and activity systems / Fran Lopez-Real, Doris Law and Rosina Tang

Mutual engagement and boundary crossing in lesson studies / Doris Law and Amy B.M. Tsui

Connecting communities of practice / Albert Wong and Gwyn Edwards

Sociocultural theories of learning revisited / Amy B.M. Tsui.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.

ISBN:

9780805853162

0805853162

9780203891001

0203891007

OCLC:

213408589