PL Eddy, Y Hao, E Iverson… - Community College …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com

Fostering Communities of Practice Among Community College Science Faculty.

Broadening participation informal stem education

Eddy, Hao

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Excerpt

Objective/Research Question: This paper reports on data collected in a multi-year National Science Foundation grant project involving a professional development (PD) model built to support community college faculty as change agents (CAs). The research question was: How do disciplinary communities of practice (CoP) emerge among community college faculty working in teams? Methods: This research employed a mixed-method design. Data collection included interviews, focus-group sessions, reflective journals, observations, end …