Communities of Practice and Part-time Lecturers: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education Export

@incollection{CLEE_1_5, abstract = {This chapter considers the experiences of part-time lecturers in Higher Education (HE). Part-time lecturers, who work on an hourly-paid and non-permanent basis, are an important but often overlooked feature of Universities and Colleges. Access to formal development processes that permanently employed academics take for granted is often difficult for part-time lecturers. The Communities of Practice (CoP) framework is used to make sense of part-time lecturers' experiences expressed as part of an action research project undertaken in 2003-5 in a UK University Business School. The chapter establishes the need for a re-examination of the role of part-time lecturers in HE and shows the part that Communities ofPractice can play in achieving this.}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Anderson, Valerie}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators}, chapter = {5}, citeulike-article-id = {2662130}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_5.html}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, keywords = {action\_research, book, clee, continuing\_professional\_development, cpd, crossing\_boundaries, higher\_education, part\_time\_working, situated\_learning}, pages = {83--102}, posted-at = {2008-04-12 20:47:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, title = {Communities of Practice and Part-time Lecturers: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_5.html}, volume = {1}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - CLEE_1_5 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2662130 N2 - This chapter considers the experiences of part-time lecturers in Higher Education (HE). Part-time lecturers, who work on an hourly-paid and non-permanent basis, are an important but often overlooked feature of Universities and Colleges. Access to formal development processes that permanently employed academics take for granted is often difficult for part-time lecturers. The Communities of Practice (CoP) framework is used to make sense of part-time lecturers' experiences expressed as part of an action research project undertaken in 2003-5 in a UK University Business School. The chapter establishes the need for a re-examination of the role of part-time lecturers in HE and shows the part that Communities ofPractice can play in achieving this. AD - Charlotte, NC EP - 102 TI - Communities of Practice and Part-time Lecturers: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education PB - Information Age Publishing VL - 1 T2 - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators SP - 83 KW - action_research KW - book KW - clee KW - continuing_professional_development KW - cpd KW - crossing_boundaries KW - higher_education KW - part_time_working KW - situated_learning AU - Anderson, Valerie A2 - Kimble, Chris A2 - Hildreth, Paul PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_5.html ER -