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SUMMARY:Professional Identity Across Borders:  Teachers Working With Other
  Teachers  - James Underwood\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambri
 dge
DTSTART:20131023T120000Z
DTEND:20131023T130000Z
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CONTACT:David Pomeroy
DESCRIPTION:This seminar explores how teachers build and define their iden
 tity within professional communities that cross borders. Increasing number
 s of teachers work with colleagues from other nations in a variety of cont
 exts. These include the fact that as professionals they may work in differ
 ent nations during a lifetime of teaching\; there are also many formally c
 onstructed opportunities for teachers to engage with colleagues from other
  nations run by a variety of organisations such as The British Council and
  also run by universities such as the International Teacher Leadership Pro
 ject at Cambridge. Significantly\, governments also often seek the direct 
 transfer of practice via dialogue with teachers from other nations\, with 
 the goal of this leading to statistically identifiable improvements in chi
 ldren's education. There is also a large pan-national federation of teache
 rs unions\, 'Education International'\, which looks to connect teachers by
  identifying common goals. However\, although there is literature on the n
 ature of professional communities and communities of practice and the rele
 vance of these concepts for schools\, there is far less research into whet
 her these terms are relevant for teachers working together across national
  boundaries. In this seminar I will be discussing the results of a scoping
  study and pilot study that I have recently completed\, as well as looking
  at these issues more broadly prior to commencing my field-work.
LOCATION:Room 2S5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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