TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating times of change through communities of practice
T2 - A focus on teacher educators’ realities and professional learning
AU - Leahy, Keelin
AU - Calderón, Antonio
AU - O'Meara, Niamh
AU - MacPhail, Ann
AU - O'Flaherty, Joanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2025/4
Y1 - 2025/4
N2 - Teacher education is influenced by the pervasive influence of neoliberalism. In this paper, we focused on a group of teacher educators, to examine if their participation in a community of practice influenced their realities and professional learning. Through a two-year period thirty-five online meetings were organised. The community of practice provided a collegial and supportive space, fostering professional learning through critical reflection, enabling teacher educators navigate feelings of fear and guilt. It could also be interpreted as an awakening from the unconscious silence prevailing in a neoliberal university to acknowledge its implications for teacher educators’ identity, pedagogy, and wellbeing.
AB - Teacher education is influenced by the pervasive influence of neoliberalism. In this paper, we focused on a group of teacher educators, to examine if their participation in a community of practice influenced their realities and professional learning. Through a two-year period thirty-five online meetings were organised. The community of practice provided a collegial and supportive space, fostering professional learning through critical reflection, enabling teacher educators navigate feelings of fear and guilt. It could also be interpreted as an awakening from the unconscious silence prevailing in a neoliberal university to acknowledge its implications for teacher educators’ identity, pedagogy, and wellbeing.
KW - Community of practice
KW - Professional learning
KW - Teacher educators
KW - Teaching and learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85214314922&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tate.2025.104925
DO - 10.1016/j.tate.2025.104925
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85214314922
SN - 0742-051X
VL - 156
JO - Teaching and Teacher Education
JF - Teaching and Teacher Education
M1 - 104925
ER -