- Title
- Learning affordances and participation enablers within a primary mathematics in-service community of practice:
- Creator
- Graven, Mellony, Pausigere, Peter
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144622
- Identifier
- vital:38363
- Identifier
- https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/551
- 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.
- Format
- 2 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Childhood Education, Graven, M. and Pausigere, P., 2017. Learning Affordances and Participation Enablers within a Primary Mathematics In-Service Community of Practice. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 7(1), p.551., South African Journal of Childhood Education volume 7 number 1 551 551 2017 2223-7682
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Graven, Mellony (Prof)
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for South African Numeracy
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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