How Teaching Academies Promote Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice: The Helsinki Case

Autor/inn/en	Pyörälä, Eeva; Korsberg, Hanna; Peltonen, Liisa M.
Titel	How Teaching Academies Promote Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice: The Helsinki Case
Quelle	In: Cogent Education, 8 (2021) 1, Artikel 1978624 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pyörälä, Eeva) ORCID (Korsberg, Hanna) ORCID (Peltonen, Liisa M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2331-186X
DOI	10.1080/2331186X.2021.1978624
Schlagwörter	Interdisciplinary Approach; Communities of Practice; Faculty Development; College Faculty; Teacher Effectiveness; Interpersonal Communication; Foreign Countries; Finland (Helsinki) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Community; Fakultät; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Ausland
Abstract	Universities invest in teaching academies to reward outstanding teachers. Few studies have been published about the impact of teaching academies on teaching communities. The aim of this study was to see who excellent academic teachers spoke to when they discussed teaching and learning, and what kind of community a Teachers' Academy established in 2013 offered to its Fellows. We analysed the answers to two open-ended questions from two surveys. The first survey (2013) was addressed to first-round applicants to the Academy in 2013 (N = 46, 32%) and the second (2018) to its Fellows (N = 56, 65%). In both surveys, most teachers had meaningful discussions with their close colleagues. In the second survey, the conversations with pedagogical experts merged with the discussions at the Academy. The 2018 survey also examined how well the Academy's key objectives of providing teachers with an interdisciplinary community and peer support had been achieved in five years. The Academy had become an important community for teachers, in which teachers shared mutual appreciation for teaching and collaborated across disciplinary boundaries and campuses. A challenge for a teaching academy is to support its fellows in implementing the principles of scholarship of teaching and learning, that is, carrying out scholarly educational projects and sharing the results locally, nationally and internationally. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01