Identifying and building the leadership capacity of community of practice facilitators
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Article Title | Identifying and building the leadership capacity of community of practice facilitators |
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ERA Journal ID | 123801 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | McDonald, Jacquelin (Author), Nagy, Judy (Author), Star, Cassandra (Author), Burch, Tony (Author), Cox, Miton D. (Author) and Margetts, Fiona |
Journal Title | Learning Communities Journal |
Journal Citation | 4, pp. 63-84 |
Number of Pages | 21 |
Year | 2012 |
Place of Publication | Oxford, OH, USA |
ISSN | 1946-0597 |
1946-0600 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://celt.miamioh.edu/lcj/issue.php?v=4&n=0 |
Abstract | The authors report on an Australian project that conducted a sector-wide needs analysis and qualitative interviews to identify community of practice (CoP) leadership roles, challenges, and development needs. Survey and interview data identified that most communities of practice are situated within university faculties among practitioners and are, therefore, close to where student learning takes place. The project findings informed the creation of resources to develop CoP leadership capacity to foster shared social learning and thereby improve learning and teaching across the Australian higher education sector. This article outlines the distributed leadership approach that profiled the strengths of each member of the project team and enabled the group to become a CoP in action and to work collaboratively over three years. |
Keywords | community of practice |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
Public Notes | Copyright: Permission for educational, scholarly, and not-for-profit institutional use, including print reproduction and electronic dissemination, is granted free of charge and without securing permission, as allowed by United States Copyright Law. |
Byline Affiliations | Learning and Teaching Support Unit |
University of South Australia | |
Flinders University | |
Independent Higher Education Consultant, Australia | |
Miami University, United States | |
Office of Research | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2q81/identifying-and-building-the-leadership-capacity-of-community-of-practice-facilitators
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