Systems of Practice: How Leaders Use Artifacts to Create Professional Community in Schools

Creator

Richard R. Halverson

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

October 2003

Abstract

This article explores how local school leaders construct the conditions for professional community in their schools. This paper argues that professional community is a special form of social capital that results, in part, from the design and implementation of facilitating structural networks by instructional leaders in schools. The structural aspects of a school community can be conceived as a system of practice, that is, a network of structures, tasks and traditions that create and facilitate complex webs of practice in organizations.

Extent

34

Volume

11

Issue

37

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Halverson, R., (2003, October 10). Systems of practice: How leaders use artifacts to create professional community in schools. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11(37).Retrieved [Date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n37/.

Identifier

E11-00335

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Halverson, Richard R., "Systems of Practice: How Leaders Use Artifacts to Create Professional Community in Schools" (2003). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 116.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/116