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Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region

Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the... AsiA PAcific JournAl of Educ Ation, 2016 Vol . 36, no . 2, 193–201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2016.1148848 EDITORIAL Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region Introduction The world is changing at seemingly breakneck speed. Many nations around the world are undertaking wide-ranging reforms of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to prepare students for increasingly complex demands of life and work and develop the ability to compete effectively in a knowledge-based economy. Teachers are the single biggest in-school influence on student achievement and teacher quality is therefore central to improving education systems around the world. This challenge grows ever more acute as the demands on education systems become more ambitious – to prepare all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for success in an increasingly globalized and digital world (Asia Society, 2012). We live in a globalizing world where organizations are faced with an evolving new era fuelled by unrestrained, accelerated expansion of ideas, technology, competition, culture, and democracy, all captured under the banner of “globalization” (Pang, 2006). The main characteristic of this world is quick- silver – a world of fluidity – sometimes fickleness – where sudden and unpredictable change can occur (Pisapia, 2009). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Journal of Education Taylor & Francis

Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region

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Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region

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AsiA PAcific JournAl of Educ Ation, 2016 Vol . 36, no . 2, 193–201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2016.1148848 EDITORIAL Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region Introduction The world is changing at seemingly breakneck speed. Many nations around the world are undertaking wide-ranging reforms of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to prepare students for increasingly complex demands of life and work and...
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AsiA PAcific JournAl of Educ Ation, 2016 Vol . 36, no . 2, 193–201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2016.1148848 EDITORIAL Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region Introduction The world is changing at seemingly breakneck speed. Many nations around the world are undertaking wide-ranging reforms of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to prepare students for increasingly complex demands of life and work and develop the ability to compete effectively in a knowledge-based economy. Teachers are the single biggest in-school influence on student achievement and teacher quality is therefore central to improving education systems around the world. This challenge grows ever more acute as the demands on education systems become more ambitious – to prepare all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for success in an increasingly globalized and digital world (Asia Society, 2012). We live in a globalizing world where organizations are faced with an evolving new era fuelled by unrestrained, accelerated expansion of ideas, technology, competition, culture, and democracy, all captured under the banner of “globalization” (Pang, 2006). The main characteristic of this world is quick- silver – a world of fluidity – sometimes fickleness – where sudden and unpredictable change can occur (Pisapia, 2009).

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Asia Pacific Journal of Education – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 2, 2016

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