Fostering learning communities in classrooms: A case study of Hong Kong schools

Fostering learning communities in classrooms: A case study of Hong Kong schools

• Yuen, Allan H. K. Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong

Educational Media International, 40(1), 153-162, 2003

Routledge

2003

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GD Science & Technology

Case Studies Computer Mediated Communication Curriculum Development Educational Change Educational Technology Elementary Education Elementary School Science Foreign Countries Information Technology Interpersonal Relationship Science Instruction Hong Kong Knowledge Acquisition Learning Communities

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

Over the past few years, curriculum innovation has been regarded as an essential strategy for educational reform throughout the era of educational change. Because of the changing nature of the knowledge age, students need to develop ways of dealing with complex issues and problems that require different kinds of skills and knowledge they have ever learned. Given the advancement of information and communications technologies (ICT), a number of cases of building learning communities in classrooms have been developed in recent years. Realizing the impact of this new learning culture, six primary schools in Hong Kong participated in the implementation of building learning communities through science project works. During the project, students from different schools engaged in the discussion and knowledge construction using a computer mediated communication (CMC) platform called Knowledge Forum. The aim of this case study is to explore the role of ICT in building learning communities and the conditions are essential to building learning communities from the different ways that students and teachers experienced the processes of community and knowledge construction using Knowledge Forum. Through the analysis of the interviews of students and teachers, conditions that support learning community building were emerged in three major themes, namely; conceptions of learning, knowledge construction processes, and development of social processes.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 09523987

• 10.1080/0952398032000092198

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/740faab3

2010-09-08