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ERIC Number: EJ640143
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
Toward a Theory of Teacher Community.
Grossman, Pamela; Wineburg, Samuel; Woolworth, Stephen
Teachers College Record, v103 n6 p942-1012 Dec 2001
Uses the authors' experiences with a professional development project to propose a model of teacher community, describing the challenge of negotiating the essential tension of teacher community and the challenge of maintaining diverse perspectives within a social group. A model of the markers of community formation as manifested in participants' speech and action is included. (Contains references.) (SM)
Descriptors: Collegiality, Democracy, Diversity (Faculty), Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Leadership, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Improvement
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Learning Communities; Teacher Knowledge; Tension