The field of higher professional educational in the Netherlands is undergoing drastic structural changes. Organizational-wide mergers are commonplace and are often followed by development of new curricula. Furthermore, this is often accompanied by the implementation of a completely new educational concept as well. These structural changes in the educational system require that teachers adapt their current teaching practices, along with working on gaining new competences associated with working in a changing organization. This paper presents a short background of communities of practice in higher education, followed by a report on the first impressions from an experiment in which a bottom-up style of change management has been implemented through the use of a community of practice. A community of practice (CoP) is a powerful knowledge management tool that brings people from a similar domain together in order to solve complex problems, deal with a changing organization and build knowledge around a specific practice. Inholland decided to implement a CoP for the international faculty in order for the members to better cope with the major curricula and didactic changes currently being implemented there. Concepts such as change, organizational sense making and teacher professionalization
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.), Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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This volume, the result of four years of work performed by the combined research groups of Utrecht University (Faculty of Humanities) and the HU Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Faculty of Education), focuses on the central theme of 'Normative Professionalization'. Drawing on a wide variety of scholars including Hannah Arendt, Gert Biesta, Harry Kunneman, Donald SchOn and Chris Argyris, and engaging with professionalism, ethics, virtue and morality, this book builds the argument that learning to deal with complexity supports not only education but the personal development of teachers and the improvement of society and democracy as well. This volume presents research on a broad range of topics such as worldview education, co-teaching, moral authorship, traditional-reform perspectives on education, the discourse on citizenship, teacher education, and the question how to link religion and education. The research chapters explain the theoretical lenses and methodological approaches which have been employed to get a grip on complexity.
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.). Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.), Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.). Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.), Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.), Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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In Cok Bakker & Nicolina Montesano Montessori (Eds.). Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: SensePublishers.
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