“Critical Friendship” and Sustainable Change: Creating Liminal Spaces to Experience Discomfort Together
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches
First Page
32
Last Page
45
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-495-6.ch003
Abstract
The central focus of this chapter will be to describe the theory and practice of critical friendship in teacher professional development, paying special attention to the ways in which participants in small professional learning communities (PLCs) create spaces in which to experience discomfort together for the purpose of sustaining their own transformation as practitioners. Using protocols (prescribed turn-taking mechanisms) as social processes to negotiate and then arrive at explicitly named norms and agreements, PLCs that use critical friendship as their goal aim to create the conditions for personal and communal transformation of both their members and their institutional contexts.
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Adams, Susan R. and Peterson-Veatch, Ross, "“Critical Friendship” and Sustainable Change: Creating Liminal Spaces to Experience Discomfort Together" (2012). Scholarship and Professional Work – Education. 132.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/coe_papers/132