Learning affordances and participation enablers within a primary mathematics in-service community of practice
South African Journal of Childhood Education
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Learning affordances and participation enablers within a primary mathematics in-service community of practice | |
| Creator | Graven, Mellony Pausigere, Peter | |
| Description | This article investigates the participation enablers and learning affordances identified by teachers through participation within an in-service community of practice (CoP) of primary teachers called the Numeracy Inquiry Community of Leader Educators (NICLE) in the Eastern Cape. The article draws on three qualitative sources of data: the annual teacher questionnaires of 42 participating teachers, interview data from 8 of the 42 sampled teachers and reflective journal entries of these 8 teachers over the first 2 years of NICLE. All three data sets point to teachers foregrounding the affordances and enablers of NICLE participation across the fundamental elements of a CoP, namely domain, community and practice. We illuminate the way in which teachers’ identification of learning affordances relates to these three structural features of a CoP. In concluding, we argue that explicit consideration of these structural elements, and their interrelationship in the design of in-service programmes, could enable clearer articulation of programme aspects and support reflection on the coherence between teacher feedback on these as programmes evolve. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2017-12-08 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajce.v7i1.551 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 7, No 1 (2017); 11 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/551/616
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