Towards design-based knowledge-building practices in teaching
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This paper explores knowledge building in a community identified by Bielaczyc and Collins (2006) as a hotbed community—a community in which knowledge creation has taken on a life of its own. The practices of six elementary schoolteachers are analyzed to inform the development of teachers’ knowledge-building practices and to better understand how teachers develop and sustain innovative knowledge-building practices.
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