Global Perspectives on Developing Professional Learning Communities

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Global Perspectives on Developing Professional Learning Communities is written by Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351206176 (ISBN 10) and 9781351206174 (ISBN 13).

This book discusses distinctive features of the professional learning community concept, practices and processes across six different education systems in the Asia-Pacific region, namely Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and the United States. It provides a platform for an exchange of different perspectives and offers alternative possibilities of theorizing professional learning communities across different socio-cultural contexts. Contributors provide valuable insights for policy makers, education researchers and educators in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere to deal with critical questions about the improvement of teaching and learning and school improvement in a globalizing world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education.