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Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice? This book explores such questions as: "Are learning communities essential in education?" "How are they designed and developed?" "What difference do they make in learning?" The book contains contributions of educators who share their research and practice in designing and implementing learning communities in school, university, and professional network settings. It presents their experiences, and the "how to" of these educators who are passionate about building and sustaining learning communities to make a real difference for students, teachers, faculty, and communities. Combining scholarly and practitioner research, the book offers practical information to teachers, school and university administrators, teacher educators, and community educators.

This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but simplistic and regulatory ideas and practices of learning community in higher education and lifelong learning are critiqued. Instead, Jocey Quinn argues that learners gain most benefit from creating their own symbolic communities and networks, which help to produce imagined social capital. A rich v

Drei Einzelfallanalysen in Norwegen, England und Deutschland präsentieren die Facettenbreite der Learning Communities, aus denen sich vier Grundvarianten ableiten lassen. Die Analysen basieren auf leitfadengestützten Experteninterviews, einer Fragebogenerhebung unter den Netzwerkmitgliedern sowie auf Kontextinterviews und umfassenden Recherchen vor Ort. Zudem werden sie international-vergleichend in Bezug gesetzt.
Die Ergebnisse zeigen, wie Idee und Verständnis des Lebenslangen Lernens in den theoretischen wie praktischen Ansätzen von Learning Communities deutlich werden und welche Konsequenzen damit verbunden sind.

Drei Einzelfallanalysen in Norwegen, England und Deutschland präsentieren die Facettenbreite der Learning Communities, aus denen sich vier Grundvarianten ableiten lassen. Die Analysen basieren auf leitfadengestützten Experteninterviews, einer Fragebogenerhebung unter den Netzwerkmitgliedern sowie auf Kontextinterviews und umfassenden Recherchen vor Ort. Zudem werden sie international-vergleichend in Bezug gesetzt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, wie Idee und Verständnis des Lebenslangen Lernens in den theoretischen wie praktischen Ansätzen von Learning Communities deutlich werden und welche Konsequenzen damit verbunden sind.

Integrating the four Tools of Cultural Proficiency with the Proficient Learning Communities (PLC) framework, this guide provides school leaders with practical strategies for building equity-focused PLCs to help all students achieve. It includes templates, protocols, activities and rubrics for deconstructing student inequalities

Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References and Resources -- Index

1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of learning in online communities -- 3. Tools for online learning communities -- 4. Benefits and problems of online learning communities -- 5. Too much information -- 6. Feeling connected -- 7. In real time -- 8. Assessment for learning in online communities -- 9. Supporting online learning communities.

This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic.

In 'Learning Without Lessons', David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for fostering learning in children that are found in small-scale, pre-industrial communities across the globe and through history. His analysis yields a consistent and coherent 'pedagogy' that can be contrasted sharply with the taken-for-granted pedagogy found in the West. The practices that are rare or absent from indigenous pedagogy include teachers, classrooms, lessons, verbal instruction, testing, grading, praise, and the use of symbols.