Outenaar, M.T.C. van den (2021) Factors Influencing the Sustainment of Professional Learning Communities: a Multi-Study Research Synthesis. Master thesis, Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
Abstract Research has shown that participation in PLCs can facilitate teachers’ professional development, school reform, and students’ academic achievements. However, before schools can experience these benefits, PLCs need to be implemented well and sustained successfully. Different factors have been found to affect the development and sustainment of PLCs. The main objective of this review is to provide an overview of factors influencing PLC sustainment, as perceived by educational professionals in primary and secondary education. This review is a mixed-methods research synthesis including 22 qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies. Data was collected by extracting key sentences summarizing each study’s main findings. Through a thematic analysis of the dataset, three overarching themes and eleven subthemes were found: leadership (supportive leadership, shared leadership, and teacher leaders), collaborative culture (trust, collective responsibility, collective inquiry, and motivators), and structural conditions (time, space, monetary resources, and external support). In the discussion, the role of context in sustaining PLCs and possible interrelatedness between influencing factors are discussed, after which several limitations and implications of this review are described.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Veldman, M.A. |
| Degree programme: | Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Master Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 15:40 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/63 |
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