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The role of a professional learning community in teacher change: a perspective from beliefs and practices
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This longitudinal study aimed to examine the role of a professional learning community (PLC) in changing teachers’ beliefs and practices. Teachers of a Chinese department in a Hong Kong secondary school were interviewed and observed. The findings indicate that the features of a PLC-facilitating teacher change are development of a coherent structure, a collaborative culture, and effective learning activities. These help teachers to overcome initial difficulties and induce their motivation for transformation. Teacher change in five dimensions (curriculum, teaching, learning, roles of teachers, and learning to teach) and three patterns (change in practice but not in belief, change in belief but not in practice, change in practice and belief) were detected. It is argued that cultivating an effective PLC is significant to teacher development.
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“Teacher change is central in teacher identity development, but we also know it is a difficult process (DarlingHammond, Hyler and Gardner 2017; Tam 2015)”
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“Teacher change is central in teacher identity development, but we also know it is a difficult process (DarlingHammond, Hyler and Gardner 2017; Tam 2015)”
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“We consider these changes as essential for understanding and assisting the processes of teacher identity development and teacher change during teacher preparation (see e.g., Kaasila and Lauriala 2010; Korthagen 2017; Tam 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tam, A. C. F.
- Affiliations
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Corresponding author
- Tam, Angela Choi Fung
- Venue
- Teachers and Teaching
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-07-31
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 22-43
- ISSN
- 1354-0602 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1278
- OpenAlex
- W2013041993
- Cited by
- 252
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 9
- FWCI
- 56.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Teachers and Teaching (publishedVersion)
- Hong Kong Education Bibliographic Database (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Social Sciences › Education › Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
- Keywords
- professional learning communities, teacher change, teacher beliefs, teaching practice, teacher professional development, collaborative culture, coherent structures, learning activities, teacher role, learning to teach, curriculum change, secondary school teachers, Hong Kong
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