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Inside Collaborative Communities: Teachers' Perceptions Of The Collaborative Process, Pamela Ann Evors
Inside Collaborative Communities: Teachers' Perceptions Of The Collaborative Process, Pamela Ann Evors
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Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand teachers’ perceptions of the collaborative process and how it affected their classroom practices. The research question was “What are the perceptions held by experienced public elementary-school teachers in a large urban school district in the southeastern United States regarding the collaborative process in their school settings?”
The research design used semi-structured, in-depth interviews with a specific group of public elementary-school teachers who had extensive professional development and experience with the collaborative process, either in co-teaching settings or in frequent collaboration with colleagues. Using the process of educational criticism (Eisner, 1998) …