What is School as Learning Community: Definition, Expectation, and Implications
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In 2017, Thailand introduced the School as a Learning Community (SLC) reform that has since been practised in pilot schools across the country. Recently, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) decided to introduce SLC as a part of its education policies. However, the prior practices of multiple reforms risk causing confusion among teachers. Should the BMA monitor and assess the progress of SLC, it may be that supervisors possibly fail to understand the SLC or how to implement it. To avoid such a situation, this study, therefore, aims to address (1) the uniqueness of the SLC approach with reference to professional learning communities, schools that learn, and lesson studies; and (2) indicators of importance to understand the progress in schools based on the experience of the first author, who has worked on SLC since 2006 in multiple countries.
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