Collective Intelligence in Schools

ISBN-13: 9783639163193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str.

Joan Conway

Opis

It is universally acknowledged that teachers arecritical to the enhancement of student achievement inschools. This book highlights the significance ofteacher leaders as key knowledge workersdemonstrating understandings of how new knowledge iscreated and utilised in relation to schools asproductive professional learning communities whenteachers engage in learning processes for individualand collective professional development. The casestudies of this book focus on the dynamics of howteachers who are engaged in a process of successfulschool improvement create new knowledge and makesignificant new meaning. Of particular significance as a result of the research is the postulation of a new image of the professional teacher - one who recognises his/her capacity for engagement in collective, reflective practices through the exercise of new ways of thinking and acting in support of student achievement. This study reveals that collective intelligence in schools is more than just the sum of individual processes or capabilities, it is the capacity of collaborative individuals to collectively grasp, synergise and create meaning together.

O autorze

Joan Conway PhD consultant, researcher and lecturer in the
Faculty of Education,University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia. Joan engages in school-based research
investigating the relationship between teacher leadership, school
improvement and teacher professionalism.