Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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374538 | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2010 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Teachers' lounges are often thought as places that breed negativity. This two-year ethnography conducted in the United States explored teachers' interactions within teachers' lounges and congregational spaces. This article discusses that an important occurrence in these spaces, professional knowledge sharing, took place instead of perpetual negativity which is the common perception. I present suggestions for how teacher education programs can highlight the importance of congregational spaces, while providing a more complete account of them.
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Authors
Lynnette Mawhinney,