The Handbook of Leadership and Professional Learning Communities

by Mullen, Carol A.

• ISBN13: 9780230612389
• ISBN10: 0230612385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is the first to integrate the topics of professional development, educational leadership, and social justice. Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities. This wide-ranging text will prove indispensable for any democratically accountable leader committed to organizational change through communities of practice. The book contains four sections: organization and the learning community, democracy and the learning community, technology and the learning community, and mentoring and the learning community. Descriptions of conceptual frameworks are supported by strategies for implementation and success.

Author Biography

Carol A. Mullen, PhD, is a Professor in and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She specializes in mentorship, leadership, and democracy in both K–12 and higher education settings. Dr. Mullen is editor of Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, a refereed international journal. Her authorships include more than 160 articles, book chapters, and special issues, in addition to 13 other books, most recently Write to the Top! How to be a Prolific Academic (with W. B. Johnson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Curriculum Leadership Development: A Guide for Aspiring School Leaders (2007).

Table of Contents

Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge and Vitality

Organization And The Learning Community

Understanding Schools as Organizations: Implications for Realizing Professional Learning Communities

Forming School–University Partnerships to Create Professional Learning Communities That Improve Schools

Developing Professional Learning Communities in a University–Public School Partnership

Professional Development Schools: Learning Communities for Leaders and Teachers as Change Agents

Teacher Education is Everybody’s Business: Northern Guilford High School—a Professional Development Community

The University Connection: Transformational Learning That Enhances Professional Learning Communities

A Vision for Linking Pre-K and Higher Education Through Learning Communities

Democracy And The Learning Community

Forming Culturally Responsive Learning Communities in Demographically Changing Schools

Transforming the Space of Schools Into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership as Pedagogy of Democratic Place

Catalysts and Barriers: Practitioner Concepts of Professional Learning Communities as Democracies in Action

Faculty of Color Constructing Communities at Predominantly White Institutions

Support for Women Leaders: The Visible and the Invisible

Technology And The Learning Community

Professional Learning Communities and the Culture of Digital Technology: A Philosophic Inquiry

Virtual Learning Communities: Encountering Digital Culture, Politics, and Capital

Graduate Students’ and Preservice Teachers’ Electronic Communications in a Community of Practice

Mentoring And The Learning Community

Leadership in K–12 Learning Communities: Activism and Access Through Inter-Generational Understanding

Facilitating Professional Learning Communities Through Mentor Teacher Preparation

Peer Learning Communities in Action: Coaching to Improve Preservice Teaching

Conclusion: Community Change Through Activism: Insights and Lessons

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