About a week ago Stephen Downes wrote about Why Do Professional Learning Communities Fail to Develop?
Downes writes about an online discussion between teachers. He concludes:
the answer is pretty simple – when they’re imposed from the top (usually in a slap-dash duct-tape manner), they fail. And they poison any attempt that may follow. "That’s the key. It has to belong to the teachers who are part of the community. If the community belongs to ’the administration’ and teachers are merely invited to attend, things fall apart."
According to Downes this is also the case for students. And in my opinion for the tourism employers and employees as well! We cannot succeed if push a commpunity of practice top down. If we built it, they will definetely NOT come automatically. And they will not at all participate. This is a huge challenge for the Work and Learn Together project: how can we stimulate en facilitate?
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