A01=Ann Lieberman
A01=Lynne Miller
Author_Ann Lieberman
Author_Lynne Miller
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Category=JNMT
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807748893
- Weight: 197g
- Dimensions: 152 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Based on research and many years of lived experience in schools, the authors have become convinced that teachers learn best within their own work communities. In this volume, they explore what research and practice have to tell us about how such communities grow and develop, and how to negotiate the inherent tension between improving competence and building community.Using five themes that emerged from their studies of practice (context, capacity, content, commitment, and challenge), the authors examine selected research studies, personal reflections, and five cases that were especially commissioned for this volume in order to uncover new insights and understandings. The text begins with essays on research and long-term development projects and concludes with vignettes that address the following questions: What is the context of your program? How does your program deal with facilitating both competence and the building of community? What are the challenges and how has your program dealt with them?
Ann Lieberman was a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is now at Stanford University. Lynne Miller is Professor of Educational Leadership and Director of the Southern Maine Partnership at the University of Southern Maine. They are the editors of Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters.
