Debates and Reflections on the Studies of Teachers’ Communities of Practice

Abstract

Abstract:

At present, there are many debates about the perceptions and understandings towards the theory of Teachers’ Communities of Practice (CoP). Through discussing teachers’ interactive relationships, conflicts and heterogeneity opinions, the role of individual teachers and school leaders in communities, and the influence of CoP on teacher development, this paper scrutinized and reflected on the ambiguities and controversies in the connotation and concept of CoP. This paper argues that in the concept of CoP contain diversified practical patterns. To give full play to the role of the CoP, future research needs to strengthen the investigation of the processes of teachers’ interaction and cooperation in the community.

Key words: teachers’ communities of practice, interactive relationships, conflict, school leaders, influence

CLC Number:

G451.7

Song Pingping. Debates and Reflections on the Studies of Teachers’ Communities of Practice[J]. Education Science, 2019, 35(2): 34-39.

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