Researching and Understanding Educational Networks

ISBN-13: 9780415494830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 282 str.

Robert McCormick

Opis

This volume presents analyses of the problems with existing theories of teacher learning, which for example draw on ideas of 'communities of practice', and explores what network theories can be brought to the problem of how teachers and schools create and share new knowledge about practice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Educational Policy and Technological Contexts  Chapter 2. Theorising Networks  Chapter 3. Teacher Learning  Chapter 4. Mapping Networks  Chapter 5. Network Nodes: entities or relationships?  Chapter 6. Network Links: interactions or transactions?  Chapter 7. Network Traffic: creation and sharing  Chapter 8. Networks in Context: spatial and temporal issues  Chapter 9. Case Studies  Chapter 10. Electronic Networks and Teacher Learning  Chapter 11. Implications