Communities of practice and professional development
Communities of practice and professional development
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实践和专业发展社区
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2006
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P. Keown
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作者：
L. Chalmers;P. Keown
互联网对当代生活的许多方面都产生了革命性的影响。虽然人们可能有夸大这项技术的影响的趋势，但许多社会的工作场所和工作实践已经受到通过扩大带宽提供的几乎即时的海量信息访问的极大影响。本文讨论了这种技术背景下的专业发展，并评论了一系列基于互联网的工具的出现，这些工具旨在帮助交付中学教师的专业发展计划。我们认为，这些工具本身不足以保证有效的专业发展，而建立“实践社区”将在终身学习模式中发挥重要作用。我们讨论了在一个专业发展项目中开展的一些工作，这些教师分布在离主办机构较远的地方。
The Internet has had a transformative effect on many aspects of contemporary living. While there may be a tendency to overstate the impacts of this technology, workplaces and work practices in many societies have been greatly affected by almost instant access to massive amounts of information, delivered through broadening bandwidth. This paper embeds a discussion of professional development in this technological context, and comments on the emergence of a range of Internet‐based tools designed to assist with the delivery of professional development programs for secondary teachers. We argue that the tools by themselves are not enough to guarantee effective professional development and that building ‘communities of practice’ will become significant in lifelong learning models. We discuss some work undertaken in a professional development project with secondary school teachers distributed at a distance from the host institution.