Space, Resistance and Identities: University Based Teacher-Educators developing a Community of Practice Export

@incollection{CLEE_1_10, abstract = {This chapter describes the coming together, at a particular moment and for a particular purpose, of a group of teacher-educators in a British university, to form a readers' and writers' group. Central government policy chage regarding the nature of post-16 teacher education in England and Wales was the catalyst, and over an eighteen month period, the group analysed the impact of such change on their personal and professional identities and devised authentic ways of responding to it. Here we attempt to make sense of this experience within the theoretical frames offered by notions of Communities of Practice. In so doing we explore both the 'inside space' of the group and its relation with the 'outside' of our institutional context and beyond. The process of writing this chapter collaboratively has served both to reify further the identity and positioning of the group and to point towards future work. In claiming space for 'bottom up' critical reflection and resistance and for the power to forge new positions in response to policy development, this experience clearly has a resonance beyond the particular circumstances of these teacher-educators. Employees in any setting, who are required to implement policies which challenge their professional identities, and who must find a means of rethinking and re-articulating their positions, can draw upon this group process model.}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Herrington, Margaret and Kendall, Alex and Hughes, Julie and Lacey, Cathie and Smith, Rob and Dye, Vanessa and Baig, Rachel and O'Leary, Matt}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators}, chapter = {10}, citeulike-article-id = {2662135}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_10.html}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, keywords = {academic\_writing, authenticity, book, clee, continuing\_professional\_development, cpd, criticality, further\_education, instrumentalism, resistance, space, teacher\_education, writing\_identity}, pages = {191--212}, posted-at = {2008-04-12 20:47:40}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, title = {Space, Resistance and Identities: University Based Teacher-Educators developing a Community of Practice}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_10.html}, volume = {1}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - CLEE_1_10 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2662135 N2 - This chapter describes the coming together, at a particular moment and for a particular purpose, of a group of teacher-educators in a British university, to form a readers' and writers' group. Central government policy chage regarding the nature of post-16 teacher education in England and Wales was the catalyst, and over an eighteen month period, the group analysed the impact of such change on their personal and professional identities and devised authentic ways of responding to it. Here we attempt to make sense of this experience within the theoretical frames offered by notions of Communities of Practice. In so doing we explore both the 'inside space' of the group and its relation with the 'outside' of our institutional context and beyond. The process of writing this chapter collaboratively has served both to reify further the identity and positioning of the group and to point towards future work. In claiming space for 'bottom up' critical reflection and resistance and for the power to forge new positions in response to policy development, this experience clearly has a resonance beyond the particular circumstances of these teacher-educators. Employees in any setting, who are required to implement policies which challenge their professional identities, and who must find a means of rethinking and re-articulating their positions, can draw upon this group process model. AD - Charlotte, NC EP - 212 TI - Space, Resistance and Identities: University Based Teacher-Educators developing a Community of Practice PB - Information Age Publishing VL - 1 T2 - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators SP - 191 KW - academic_writing KW - authenticity KW - book KW - clee KW - continuing_professional_development KW - cpd KW - criticality KW - further_education KW - instrumentalism KW - resistance KW - space KW - teacher_education KW - writing_identity AU - Herrington, Margaret AU - Kendall, Alex AU - Hughes, Julie AU - Lacey, Cathie AU - Smith, Rob AU - Dye, Vanessa AU - Baig, Rachel AU - O'Leary, Matt A2 - Kimble, Chris A2 - Hildreth, Paul PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_10.html ER -