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Developing professional competencies through international peer learning communities

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter (ch. 8) utilizes a peer learning community as an example to explore whether and how information exchange, learning, and knowledge creation occur when students undertake professional internships.
Yakavenka, Hanna, Hanna Yakavenka
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professional learning communities as a place for ‘catharsis’ and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesCogent Education
This study seeks to examine how the design and implementation of a professional learning community promotes teacher educators’ professional learning during the recent health crisis.
Paulina Sepulveda-Escobar
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Looking at schools through a professional learning community lens : a comparison of leadership and management practices at two secondary schools

open access: yes, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-87).This study compares the association between leadership and management practices and teacher practices in two secondary schools.
Muthama, Evelyn Loko
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Linguistic and Professional Competence: Business Ukrainian On-line [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2014
The study focuses on the potential of technology tools in language learning for professional purposes. The premise is that language learning constitutes a process of learners’ socialization into an L2 socio-cultural community with students viewed as ...
Alla Nedashkivska
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Online professional development for e-learning: A critical overview of models and approaches

open access: yes, 2005
Can professional development be achieved online using a web-based technologies and what are the design challenges? In this paper we review a range of approaches and models to create a taxonomy of types of professional development for tertiary teachers ...
McLoughlin, C., Maor, D.
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Look into a Professional Learning Community

open access: yesJournal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
Professional learning communities are not commonplace in Iran and this is evidenced by the scant literature in this regard.  The present study is an attempt to fill the gap in the literature. This study was conducted in the hope of evaluating a professional learning community within an English language institute in Iran to detect the threats to its ...
openaire   +1 more source

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