A Case Study of Faculty’s Participating in Professional Learning Community: Tunghai University Po-Ya School / 大學教師參與專業學習社群之探究:以東海大學博雅書院為例

碩士 / 東海大學 / 教育研究所 / 107 / The purpose of this study is to explore how faculty experienced a professional learning community. The research adopted interviews and documentary analysis. The major findings are as follows: the motivations of participating the community include internal factors, such as personal interests, lessons materials needs, expectation of the relationship with others, and expectation of knowledge sharing; and external factors, such as the sense of friendship, diversity, and the sense of sharing of the community. After their participation in the community, the faculty developed their teaching profession abilities and gained resources. The difficulties of participating in the community included role conflict, and time consuming. Their suggestions for PLC are: the informal activities should be emphasized, interactions among the members should be considered, and universities should provide supports and resources to faculty professional learning community. Based on the result of research, this study provides recommendations to university, faculty, and future research.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107THU00331003
Date January 2019
CreatorsLIN, TING-YU, 林庭聿
ContributorsCHEN, SHWU-MEEI, 陳淑美
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format109

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