Friday, March 30
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Examining a “Five Community Typology” to Support Designing for Community Participation in PK-12 Practice: Does “It” Belong?

Full Paper ID: 52031
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    Dawn Hathaway
    George Mason University

Abstract: The calls to reimagine citizenship largely ignore the ill-defined and changing nature of community participation. Little guidance is provided in the literature to rethink curriculum related to engaging learners in community participation. Informed by five community types used by online community managers, an online course was designed to support teachers’ designing for community participation. This study examined 27 practicing teachers’ perspectives about the efficacy of a five community typology to inform their learning and designing. A selected threaded discussion, synthesis reflections, and design documents were qualitatively analyzed. Overall, findings indicated the five community typology enlightened notions about the importance of community participation, brought definition to the concept, and provided a number of affordances to support designing for community participation. Teachers and teacher educators are encouraged to look beyond their field and community of practice for inspirations to solve problems of practice.

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