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TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 178-195Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2021.1879922
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Knowledge brokers; knowledge brokering; informal teacher professional development; teacher learning
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This qualitative study examined how teacher knowledge brokers influence their colleagues' professional development by building and sharing knowledge through specific roles and processes. Identifying and supporting these knowledge broker teachers can informally facilitate teachers' professional growth in the local school context.
Like their counterparts in business, teachers who act as knowledge brokers play a key role in transferring and translating knowledge from those who have it to those who need it. This article reports on findings of a qualitative study which examined how four knowledge broker teachers influenced the professional development of their colleague teachers. Through interviews, the author examined the unique attributes of these knowledge broker teachers, as well as the way they built and shared knowledge. Findings indicated that knowledge broker teachers used various personas and employed specific brokering processes to build and share knowledge successfully. Identifying and supporting knowledge broker teachers can create an informal pathway to support teachers' professional development in the local school context.
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