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The book invites the reader to complex learning design that combines things, tasks, and people in a group, community, and network.
List of contents
PART 1
Chapter 1. CREATING A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
Chapter 2: ENTERING INTO A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
Chapter 3: SOCIALISING AND LEARNING IN A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
Chapter 4: DEVELOPING IN A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
Chapter 5: CONNECTING IN A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
Chapter 6: EXPANDING IN A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
Chapter 7: MOVING OUT OF A TEACHER COLLECTIVE
PART 2
Chapter 8
Teacher education in the Global South and Open Source HardwareAmit Dhakulkar & Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Chapter 9
A boat on the river: The case of teacher autonomy, professional development, and online communitiesMandana Arfa & Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Chapter 10
Community facilitation for social justice educationAspasia Dania
About the author
Sean O'Connell has been teaching for over thirty years as both a special educator and social studies classroom teacher. Sean is certified on both Special Education and Social Studies and is a National Board Certified Educator. He has received the Murray Excellence in Teaching award at Niskayuna High School, and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the State University of New York at Albany.Karen Ferreira-Meyers is the Coordinator Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Institute of Distance Education in the University of Eswatini (Eswatini, Southern Africa). She is also a research fellow of the University of the Free State (South Africa). She holds four Master's degrees and a PhD in French and Francophone autofictional writing. She is a keen translator and interpreter. She publishes widely and regularly in various fields of research, among which the teaching and learning of languages; Open, Distance and e-Learning; online instruction and facilitation; autofiction and autobiography; crime and detective fiction; African literatures in European languages.Noriyuki Inoue, Ph.D. is a Professor at Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University in Japan. He specializes in educational psychology and educational research methods. His recent research projects include teacher expertise development, social-emotional learning, educational innovation, lesson study and action research methodology. He serves as a board member of the Japan Association of Research on Educator Transformation (JARET), and frequently serves as consultants and advisors for schools and organizations across the world.
