Scholarly Reflective Practice in Communities
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SCHOLARLY REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN COMMUNITIES
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#fslt14 | FIRST STEPS INTO LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
3 February, 2014
Hi from my home office
almost pyjamas
online community stewardbacktherapy
my other office
Your experience?
A) I would feel lost as an educator without regular participation in communities of practice
B) I occasionally participate in communities of practice, but don’t find them essential for my professional growth
C) I never participate in communities of practice. I don’t see the value.
D) I don’t know what a community of practice is.
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
Etienne Wenger
What are your strategies for improving your teaching?
Brookfield – 4 lenses
1. Autobiographical experiences
2. The students’ eyes
3. Our colleagues’ experiences
4. Literature
Brookfield – 4 lenses
Reach even furtherContinually shape teaching and learning environments into spaces of knowledge exchange.
Further yet?Continually shape OWN learning environments
connect – reflect – improve practice
“My students complete the required assignments and respond to my questions, but beyond that they don’t engage”
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Wide open. No login to read
Summaries – what we accomplished together
Archives available forever
Some ambitious projects
Forums, wikis, polls, resources, etc clustered together
by topic
How do we make this happen? Volunteers!
Design for Success
• Participation on the periphery• Community steward• Attention to history• Bridge and connect to enrich and advance dialogue• Rhythm and variety, build anticipation• Focus on people and dialogue• Ideas for activities emerge through participation• Mutual exchange of services / collaboration• Different modes and levels of engagement• The interactions both define and are defined by the
community – historically new forms of practice
Indicators of Success
• “WE” speak• We did this together• We learned together• We advanced our practices together• We accomplished this together
• Willingness to give back• Investment in the future of the community
Why Communities of Practice?
http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
Brookfield, S. (2005) Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. San Francisco. Jossey Bass.
http://scope.bccampus.ca
http://vle.openbrookes.net/course/view.php?id=11
Photo credits are listed in the notes section of each slide.
Sylvia Currie [email protected]@currie