The Camino Real Story: Shifting an Urban School’s Community of Practice

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• 作者：Eric DeMeulenaere
• 关键词：Urban education ; School reform ; School leadership ; Educational change ; Community of practice
• 刊名：The Urban Review
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：47
• 期：1
• 页码：161-183
• 全文大小：212 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education
  Education
  Community and Environmental Psychology
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1960

文摘

Research has revealed that the adult culture in a school can undermine most school reform efforts (Sarason in Revisiting “The culture of the school and the problem of change- Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 1996; Payne in So much reform, so little change: the persistence of failure in urban schools. Harvard Education Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008). However, little research examines how to systematically confront this challenge. This case study presents findings of how a strategic focus on the adult culture in the building can result in dramatic school changes. It reveals how a change towards working with the most effective teachers in a school can transform the adult community of practice (Wenger 1998). Such a transformation is a necessary precursor to implementing any instructional reforms. This article offers ideas for shifting the teachers-community of practice.