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Christina Preston and Laura Lengel
Abstract
Digital Communities Emerging from an Anglo-Czech Alliance: Technological, Civic and Market Impact on Pedagogical Strategies
This paper explores the impact of new communication technologies on building a learner and peer mentoring community in an international context. Specially, we examine links emerging from the Anglo-Czech strand of MirandaNet, an international network of teacher educators who, through both face-to-face and computer mediated peer mentoring, engage in contemporary pedagogical strategies which enrich traditional professional development modes.
Informed by scholarship on new pedagogies and new technologies, this paper addresses specific cultural, generational, gender and socio-political issues which emerge in the development of an electronic learning and mentoring community. Conversely, it also explores the common professional culture that teachers share regardless of national, cultural, political or other differences like the impact of the globalisation of education on teaching, research and mentoring. More broadly the paper will explore the impact of the opportunity for civic discourse which has previously forbidden in a former Communist state.
The deployment of technologies in education is affected by new alliances in educational, governmental and industrial sectors. The MirandaNet Fellowship includes industry and government Fellows as well as teacher educators. The paper, therefore, draws on the community dialogue to reflect on globalisation issues in the context of both the British and the Czech education culture.
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