Using Wenger's Communities of Practice to Explore a New Teacher Cohort
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4861173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Locraft Cuddapah (Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Christine D Clayton (0000-0001-5085-3528, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-75 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022487110377507 |
| OpenAlex | W2088947901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 25 |
This qualitative study explores a cohort professional development experience that brought new teachers together every few weeks from across an urban school district. Observation data were analyzed through Wenger's (1998) Communities of Practice social learning framework. The purpose was to examine how a cohort can be a valuable resource of new teacher support, particularly in areas where novices, who are being prepared largely through alternative routes, start their careers in some of the most challenging teaching assignments. Key theoretical insights resulting from the analysis include (a) the importance of interactivity of the Wenger elements, (b) the centrality of the community component, and (c) the implications of what legitimate peripheral participation looks like for a solely novice community of practice. Implications of these theoretical considerations are discussed and then linked to possibilities for practice and research to supplement current, traditional induction and mentoring practices
Centrality · Cohort · Community of practice · Interactivity · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Professional development · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation) · Sociology · Teacher induction · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Medicine · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Teacher Education in a New Age of Accountability
Preservice teachers’ development of culturally sustaining literacy practices
Being and becoming in teacher education
Teachers as health promoters
Teachers as sojourners
Action research, pedagogy, and activity theory
Aboriginal cultural educators teaching the teachers
Advancing Leadership
Theorising cohortness
Elementary Teachers’ Attributions for Racially Minoritized Students’ Classroom Behaviors
Formal and Informal Mentoring
Investigating the Community of Practice of World Language Educators on Twitter
Making Space for Informal Inquiry
Communities of Practice
Mentored Learning to Teach According to Standards-Based Reform
Professional conversations
Professional Development and Teacher Learning
Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages
Learning to Teach Through Collaborative Conversation
What Are the Effects of Induction and Mentoring on Beginning Teacher Turnover
American Secondary Education
Curriculum Making as Novice Professional Development
Inside the National Writing Project
Helping Novices Learn to Teach
Student Cohorts
The Work of Teaching and the Challenge for Teacher Education
A Comparison of Alternatively and Traditionally Prepared Teachers
Situated Learning
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.93 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |