Voces y Silencios. Revista Latinoamericana de Educación

Voces silec. rev. latinoam. educ. | eISSN 2215-8421

Case study of teacher collaboration around a curricular reform

No. 2 (2018-12-28)
  • Carmen Juliana Rey Flórez
    1Politécnico Internacional, Bogotá, Colombia (cjulianarey@gmail.com)
https://doi.org/10.18175/vys9.2.2018.03

Abstract

This article presents a case study about collaborative processes among professors during a curricular reform in a Colombian higher education institution. The main objective for this paper was to understand the collaborative processes: Why they happen, what strengthens or weakens them, and what influences the processes generate. My findings stressed the importance of creating formal collaboration spaces that reveal what occurs during informal settings, given the effects the latter has on teaching practice. Specifically, it is essential to focus on casual gatherings where teachers collaborate and learn. The results presented here leave lessons and tools that aid the development of the collaborative processes in educational organizations.

Keywords: curricular change, curricular reform, teacher collaboration, formal collaboration, informal collaboration

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