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标题：Professional Identity or Best Practices?—An Exploration of the Synergies between Professional Learning Communities and Communities of Practices
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作者：Daphnee H. L. Lee ; Imran Shaari
期刊名称：Creative Education
印刷版ISSN：2151-4755
电子版ISSN：2151-4771
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：4
页码：457-460
DOI：10.4236/ce.2012.34070
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：This paper attempts to find the synergies between Professional Learning Community (PLC) and Community of Practice (CoP), with the view to enhance teacher professionalism. Based on the review of literatures, we highlight the different motivations of PLCs and CoPs, and the value-assumptions informing the two initiatives. We argue that both initiatives serve critical functions in augmenting teacher autonomy. Although conceptually distinctive, the underpinning values of the approaches to organizing teacher professional communities are complementary. Therefore, a two-prong approach is proposed. One seeds teacher professionalism through emergent best practices. The other consolidates these best practices into a coherent teacher professional identity through the introduction of structural affordances.
关键词：Communities of Practice; Professional Learning Community; Teacher Professionalism; Professional Identity/Autonomy; Best Practices