Symposium 9: Professional Communities – Potentials and Limits of Blended Learning Scenarios

Abstract

The following paper deals with the development of professionalised action in the context of teacher education and training on the basis of a new group formation that we call ‘Professional Community’. This involves the implementation of heterogeneous groups as face-to-face as well as virtual structures with the mission to generate profession related knowledge and skills on a meta-level of communication and interaction. The concept of the ‘Professional Community’ is supported by an extended empirical study, which puts the theoretical framework into a concrete context, with the purpose of testing its assumed potential.