Learning Communities In Practice
Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice? This book explores such questi
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EXPLORATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE Volume 4 Series Editors Joe L. Kincheloe, Canada Research Chair of Critical Pedagogy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Shirley R. Steinberg, Montreal, Canada Editorial Board Barrie Barrell, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Rochelle Brock, University of Indiana, Gary, USA Stephen Petrina, University of British Columbia, Canada Christine Quail, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA Nelson Rodriguez, College of New Jersey, USA Leila Villaverde, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA
Series Scope
In today’s dominant modes of pedagogy, questions about issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism, religion, and other social dynamics are rarely asked. Questions about the social spaces where pedagogy takes place - in schools, media, and corporate think tanks - are not raised. And they need to be. The Explorations of Educational Purpose book series can help establish a renewed interest in such questions and their centrality in the larger study of education and the preparation of teachers and other educational professionals. The editors of this series feel that education matters and that the world is in need of a rethinking of education and educational purpose. Coming from a critical pedagogical orientation, Explorations of Educational Purpose aims to have the study of education transcend the trivialization that often degrades it. Rather than be content with the frivolous, scholarly lax forms of teacher education and weak teaching prevailing in the world today, we should work towards education that truly takes the unattained potential of human beings as its starting point. The series will present studies of all dimensions of education and offer alternatives. The ultimate aim of the series is to create new possibilities for people around the world who suffer under the current design of socio-political and educational institutions.
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Anastasia P. Samaras • Anne R. Freese Clare Kosnik • Clive Beck Editors
Learning Communities In Practice
Editors Anastasia P. Samaras George Mason University Fairfax, VA USA
Clare Kosnik Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto, ON Canada
Anne R. Freese University of Hawai’i Honolulu, HI USA
Clive Beck Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto, ON Canada
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8787-5
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8788-2
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