- Title
- The Dynamics of Communities of Practice During Professional Placement: Early-Career Teacher Reflections
- Creator
- Donnelly, Debra; Boadu, Gideon; Neale, Marcus; O'Keefe, Peta; Cummins, Haylee
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6532-6
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- During professional placements, pre-service teachers draw on a variety of mechanisms to support their performance in schools as they develop their teacher identity, and explore ways to apply their theoretical and research-based knowledge acquired in their university studies. The pre-service teachers are supported in this endeavour by more-experienced teacher professionals who act as models, mentors, and advisors, and with whom the pre-service teachers work collaboratively. Using (Hadar & Brody in Teaching and Teacher Education 8:1641–1651, 2010) three-layer community of practice (CoP) model as the lens, this research explores the dynamics of this support and collaboration within professional placements and the placements’ effectiveness as preparation for a teaching career. The research used survey and interview data from primary and secondary early-career teachers to capture their reflections in the light of their teacher career experience. The research suggests that mentoring and support for pre-service teachers is variable, but that at its best it is a whole school concern and that the inclusion of pre-service teachers into teacher CoPs has benefits for both pre-service and practising teachers.
- Subject
- community of practice; professional placement; dynamic; reflection; early career; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1490442
- Identifier
- uon:52907
- Identifier
- ISBN:97898119653199811965315
- Language
- eng
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