Networks for Learning: Effective Collaboration for Teacher, School and System Improvement
About this ebook
- ensuring PLNs can provide opportunities for generating and sharing knowledge within schools
- enabling teachers and professionals to direct their own development
- helping individuals change their practices through inquiry-led approaches
- facilitating partnerships which work across a variety of stakeholders
In this new edited volume, Brown and Poortman evaluate these challenges from both a theoretical and practical approach. A multitude of perspectives from a team of international contributors covers:
- the importance of Professional Learning Networks
- the use of evidence within PLNs
- the impact of inter-school networks
- international cases of networks and communities
- the promotion and sustainability of PLNs
Also featuring case studies and exemplars to contextualise sustainable learning networks, Networks For Learning is an accessible and thoroughly-researched book, which will be essential reading and a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and school leaders who are interested in developing professional learning networks.
About the author
Chris Brown is Professor of Education at the School of Education and Childhood Studies, University of Portsmouth (UK). Chris has extensive experience of leading a range of funded projects, many of which seek to help practitioners use networks to identify and scale up best practice, and was recently awarded a significant grant by the Education Endowment Foundation to work with 100+ primary schools in England to increase their use of research.
Cindy L. Poortman is Assistant Professor in the professional development of teachers in teams at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is also Project Leader of the Dutch national project ‘Pilots for the development of professional learning communities’, and Founder and Co-Project Leader of the Datateam Projects, the Netherlands.
