Communities of practice : facilitating social learning in higher education /: facilitating social learning in higher education. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jacquie McDonald, Aileen Cater-Steel, editors.
• Editors: McDonald, Jacquie; Cater-Steel, Aileen
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: Part 1 Theoretical underpinnings informing Communities of Practice -- 1 What is a Community of Practice? -- 2 Social Learning in Higher Education: A Clash of Cultures? -- 3 Faculty Learning Communities & Community of Practice: Dreamers, Schemers, and Seamers -- 4 Using Communities of Practice to internationalise HEd: Practical and strategic considerations -- 5 Delivering institutional priorities in learning and teaching through a social learning model: Embedding a high impact community of practice initiative at the University of Tasmania -- 6 Creating and Facilitating Communities of Practice in Higher Education: Theory to Practice in a Regional Australian University -- Part II Research of Higher Education Communities of Practice -- 7 Facilitation of social learning in teacher education: The 'Dimensions of Social Learning Framework' -- 8 Communities of practice in community-university engagement: Supporting co-productive resilience research & practice -- 9 Promoting a community of practice through collaborative curriculum reform in a university business school -- 10 Reflections on the Emergence and Evolution of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice within a Research-Intensive Higher Education Context -- 11 Building a Faculty-Centric Virtual Community of Practice (vCOP) within the Post-Secondary Education Environment: A Systems Approach Framework -- 12 Enhancing the impact of research and knowledge co-production in Higher Education through communities of practice -- Part III Leadership in Higher Education Communities of Practice -- 13 Mediating Role of Leadership in the Development of Communities of Practice -- 14 Revealing the Nexus between Distributed Leadership and Communities of Practice -- 15 The Leadership Link: A hybrid Professional Learning Network for Learning and Teaching Leaders -- 16 The road less travelled: A conversation between for communities of practice facilitators about their experiences, learning and professional outcomes from the role -- 17 Facilitating a Community of Practice in Higher Education: A Case Study -- 18 The role of Higher Education in regional economic development through small business CoPs -- 19 Teacher educators' critical reflection on becoming and belonging to a community of practice -- Part IV Communities of Practice Sustaining Professional Learning and Development -- 20 Making an Impact: Utilising Faculty Learning Communities to Enhance Teaching and Learning -- 21 "The Faculty/Faculty Conundrum": Organizing Faculty Learning Communities to Support "Singular" and "Plural" Faculty Development -- 22 Catalyst: Developing a Community of Practice for Supporting New Academics -- 23 Where's my parking permit? Bringing new staff together as a learning community -- 24 CoPs: Enhancing quality learning and teaching with sessional staff -- 25 Communities of practice and negotiation of meaning among pre-service teachers -- 26 Forums, Fellowship and Wicked Problems in Teaching -- 27 From project to permanence: Growing inter-institutional collaborative teams into long-term, sustainable communities of practice -- 28 From dream to reality. Sustaining a higher education community practice beyond initial enthusiasm.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 378; Education, Higher; Education; International education; Comparative education; Educational technology; Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher); Education; Higher Education; Educational Technology; International and Comparative Education; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9811028796; 9789811028793
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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