Writing to learn: Collaborative research in a teaching and learning community
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DEBBIE BOGARD, JAMES COLLICOTT AND SAMANTHA HUGHES, CITY AND ISLINGTON SIXTH FORM COLLEGE, UK
Centring research within communities of practice
Professional networks are a collaborative endeavour of teaching and learning communities of practice to undertake professional and personal development. An effective network allows agency for teachers to focus on their own interests, with the community supporting them in innovative research to develop self-efficacy in teaching and learning. In this way, collaboration is necessary in order to be effectively autonomous (Fullan, 2018). The impact of this practitioner-led research, Stenhouse argues, sees the teacher as a key researcher in their classroom in order to enhance professional judgement (Stenhouse, 1975).
In our further education setting, the teaching and learning community (TLC) acts as a collaborative research hub with an egalitarian non-hierarchical model, situated in classroom practice. Over the last three years, our TLC has bee
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