Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities
Dale A. Koike, Carl S. Blyth
The Community of Practice (CofP; Wenger 1998) model of social learning has recently been a preferred lense for investigating professional practice in education. This chapter focuses on the experiences and resultant beliefs and practices of a group of teachers from a range of backgrounds (local, national, international) engaged in a highly diverse community of practice. Data were collected through a mixed focus group, interviews and written responses at a university in Southern China, where local, regional, mainland, autonomous territory and overseas Chinese, as well as native, non-native, second-generation and third-culture international teachers live, work and socialize. I argue that the study of CofPs needs to draw more on the diversity of its constituent members rather than focus on commonly-shared features.
Godina:
2015
Izdanje:
1
Izdavač:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Jezik:
english
Strane:
320
ISBN 13:
9789027268334
Serije:
Dialogue Studies
Fajl:
PDF, 2.37 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015