Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature

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Title

Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature

Abstract/Description

International evidence suggests that educational reform’s progress depends on teachers’ individual and collective capacity and its link with school-wide capacity for promoting pupils’ learning. Building capacity is therefore critical. Capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organisational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support. Put together, it gives individuals, groups, whole school communities and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time. Developing professional learning communities appears to hold considerable promise for capacity building for sustainable improvement. As such, it has become a ‘hot topic’ in many countries.

Author/creator

Stoll, Louise

Bolam, Ray

McMahon, Agnes

Wallace, Mike

Thomas, Sally

Date

2006

In publication

Journal of Educational Change

Volume

7

Issue

4

Pages

221-258

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Synthesis/Overview

Keywords

professional development

school leadership

professional learning

professional community

continue professional development

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

1573-1812

DOI

10.1007/s10833-006-0001-8

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Springer Link)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)

Citation

Stoll, L., Bolam, R., McMahon, A., Wallace, M., & Thomas, S. (2006). Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Educational Change, 7(4), 221–258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-006-0001-8

Abbreviation

J Educ Change

Item sets

OB Citations: Teacher Collaboration in School Improvement

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