Learning communities in education : issues, strategies and contexts / edited by John Retallick, Barry Cocklin and Kennece Coombe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Retallick, John, 1945-

Cocklin, Barry, 1946-

Coombe, Kennece, 1954-

Series:

Routledge Research in Education

RoutledgeFalmer research in education ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education.

Educational sociology.

School environment.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Learning Communities in Education explores the theory and practice of learning communities from an international perspective. Covering primary/elementary, secondary and tertiary levels in a variety of educational contexts, leading researchers discuss:* theoretical issues and debate* processes and strategies for creating learning communities* learning communities in actionThe current experience of the learning community is examined with reference to case studies from England, Ireland, Canada, the USA and Australia. With comprehensive coverage of this much-debated topic

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Learning communities: issues and debate; 1 The story of community; 2 Meeting the challenge: becoming learning communities; 3 Partners in learning: school-based and university-based communities of learning; 4 Towards the learning community: working through the barriers between teacher development and evaluation; 5 Ethics and the learning community; Part 2 Learning communities: strategies and processes; 6 Transforming schools into learning communities: beginning the journey

7 Different and equal: fostering interdependence in a learning community8 Purpose and process in effective learning communities; 9 The role of community in action learning: a Deweyian perspective on sharing experiences; Part 3 Case studies of learning communities; 10 Talking about Coombes: features of a learning community; 11 Participative learning: the school as a learning community and as a member of a national reform organisation; 12 Building a learning community in a doctoral programme in professional development

13 Primary schools and classrooms in Ireland: what kinds of learning communities?14 Gumly Gumly Public School as a learning community: sifting the rhetoric to locate the reality; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

First published 1999 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-315-83080-9

1-317-85396-2

1-317-85397-0

9781315830803

OCLC:

958102071