Abstract

Taking a socio-cultural perspective on status, this study investigates how teachers' seniority, status, authority and power-relations shape veteran and novice teachers' learning in teacher communities. Applying Goffman's concepts for investigating the interaction order, this case study of a single community focuses on the subtle nuances of discourse in one video-recorded meeting. The analysis shows how power dynamics in community discourse afford and constrain novice and veteran teacher learning; how settings, facilitation practices, leadership and social expectations mediate status, power dynamics, and thus inquiry, thereby constraining professional learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Original languageEnglish
Article number103524
Pages (from-to)1-12
Number of pages12
JournalTeaching and Teacher Education
Volume109
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

  • Communities
  • Communities of Practice
  • Community of practice
  • Ethnography
  • Job Experience Level
  • Linguistic ethnography
  • Linguistics
  • Novice and veteran teachers
  • Professional Development
  • Professional learning community
  • Teacher Education
  • Teacher learning
  • Teachers

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Education

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