Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators

Editors, Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth and Isabelle Bourdon
Publisher, Information Age Publishing

As a two volume set:
Hard cover ISBN: 1593118678 , Soft cover ISBN: 159311866X

As separate volumes:
Hard Cover - Vol 1 ISBN: 1593118635 , Vol 2 ISBN: 1593118651
Soft Cover - Vol 1 ISBN: 1593118627 , Vol 2 ISBN: 1593118643

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Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 1

• Introduction and overview

• Chapter 1 - Networking Knowledge to Achieve Transformation in Schools
  By - Brian Caldwell

• Chapter 2 - Educational Research as a Community of Practice
  By - Ralf St.Clair

• Chapter 3 - The Reflective Mentor Model: Growing Communities of Practice for Teacher Development in Informal Learning Environments
  By - Robbin Chapman

• Chapter 4 - The Identification and Cultivation of Appropriate Communities of Practice in Higher Education
  By - Jonathan H. Klein and Con Connell

• Chapter 5 - Communities of Practice and Part-time Lecturers: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education
  By - Valerie Anderson

• Chapter 6 - 'Teaching with Technology': A Multifaceted Staff Development Strategy
  By - Tony Carr, Andrew Deacon, Glenda Cox and Andrew Morrison

• Chapter 7 - Improving Practice in Australia's Vocational Education and Training Sector through Communities of Practice
  By - John Mitchell, Suzy McKenna and Susan Young

• Chapter 8 - Becoming One of Them': The Experience of Institution-Based Educators Providing Training in Companies in Australia
  By - Roger Harris and Michele Simons

• Chapter 9 - Reaching Beyond the 'Boundaries': Communities of Practice and Boundaries in Tertiary Education
  By - Gerlinde Koeglreiter, Ross Smith and Luba Torlina

• Chapter 10 - Space, Resistance and Identities: University Based Teacher-Educators developing a Community of Practice
  By - Margaret Herrington, Alex Kendall, Julie Hughes, Cathie Lacey, Rob Smith, Vanessa Dye, Rachel Baig and Matt O'Leary

• Chapter 11 - Workplace Learning in a Community of Practice: How do Schoolteachers Learn?
  By - Saïda Habhab

• Chapter 12 - Adopting Communities of Practice as a Framework for Teacher Development
  By - Rana Yildirim

• Chapter 13 - Launching a Cross-Organizational CoP for School Leaders: Overcoming Barriers to Engagement and Meeting Diverse Needs
  By - Naava Frank and Abbey Keith

• Chapter 14 - Bridging Two Worlds: Identity Transition in a University Consulting Community of Practice
  By - Gazi Islam

• Chapter 15 - Adult Learning in Communities of Practice: Situating Theory in Practice
  By - Catherine Hansman

• Chapter 16 - Utilizing CoPs - Concepts in Adult Education Doctoral Study
  By - Jeanne Bitterman

• Chapter 17 - Teaching and Learning about Communities of Practice in Higher Education
  By - Petra Cremers and Rianne Valkenburg

• Chapter 18 - 'The Knowledge-Creating School Proudly Presents ...' - A School Community Sharing Its Story
  By - Bregje de Vries and Jules Pieters

• Chapter 19 - Facilitating Lifelong Participation in the Community of Practice of Sport
  By - Toni O'Donovan and David Kirk

• Chapter 20 - Innovative Projects in French Secondary State Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Two Communities of Practice
  By - Jean-François Marcel

• Chapter 21 - Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention
  By - Amon Daran Millner and Shaundra Bryant Daily

Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 2

• Introduction and overview

• Chapter 1 - Designing for Growth: Enabling Communities of Practice to Develop and Extend their Work Online
  By - Melissa Koch and Judith Fusco

• Chapter 2 - Holding the Virtual Space: The Roles and Responsibilities of Community Stewardship
  By - Brenda Kaulback and Debbie Bergtholdt

• Chapter 3 - Education Leadership for a Networked World
  By - Diana D. Woolis, Susan Restler and Yvonne Thayer

• Chapter 4 - Virtual Problem-based Learning Communities of Practice for Teachers and Academic Developers: An Irish Higher Education Perspective
  By - Roisin Donnelly

• Chapter 5 - Exploring the Potential of Online Communities of Practice for Distance Tutors
  By - Janet Macdonald and Anne Hewling

• Chapter 6 - Supporting a Dispersed Community: CoP Development in The Caribbean
  By - Sabine Little

• Chapter 7 - Virtual Communities of Practice: A Vehicle for Meaningful Professional Development
  By - Kathy Hibbert

• Chapter 8 - Distributing Teaching Presence: Engaging Teachers of English to Young Learners in an International Virtual Community of Inquiry
  By - Joan Kang Shin and Beverly Bickel

• Chapter 9 - Communities of Practice across Learning Institutions
  By - Thérèse Laferrière and Fernand Gervais

• Chapter 10 - Teacher-Librarian Communities: Changing Practices in Changing Schools
  By - Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P. Nathan and Matthew L. Saxton

• Chapter 11 - Communities of Practice at the Math Forum: Supporting Teachers as Professionals
  By - Wesley Shumar and Johann Sarmiento

• Chapter 12 - Heads Together: A Professional Online Community of Practice for Scottish Headteachers
  By - Kevin Thompson and Michael Hartley

• Chapter 13 - Graduate Professional Education from a Community of Practice Perspective: The Role of Social and Technical Networking
  By - Linda Polin

• Chapter 14 - Learning Communities Are Not Mushrooms - or - How to Cultivate Learning Communities in Higher Education
  By - Mélanie Bos-Ciussi, Marc Augier and Gillian Rosner

• Chapter 15 - Enabling Duality in Teaching and Learning Environmental Decision Making - A Role for Communities of Practice?
  By - Chris Blackmore

• Chapter 16 - The Adult Literacy Education Wiki as a Virtual Community of Practice
  By - Erik Jacobson

• Chapter 17 - Implications of a Virtual Learning Community Model for Designing Distributed Communities of Practice in Higher Education
  By - Richard Schwier and Ben Daniel

• Chapter 18 - Online CoPs - towards the next generation
  By - Leonie Ramondt

• Chapter 19 - Gender and Moderation: The Style's The Thing!
  By - Valentina Dodge and Sheila Vine

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