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ERIC Number: EJ662808
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0014-4029
Communities of Practice: Connecting What We Know with What We Do.
Buysse, Virginia; Sparkman, Karen L.; Wesley, Patricia W.
Exceptional Children, v69 n3 p263-77 Spr 2003
This article examines the community of practice model as a framework for integrating educational research and practice. In addition to defining communities of practice and reflective practice, it describes two researcher-teacher partnerships and offers suggestions for transforming traditional methods of conducting research on educational practice. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Inquiry, Literacy, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Researchers, Teaching Models, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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