Building a Professional Learning Community in a Conflict and Post-conflict Environment: A Case Study of a High School in Liberia

Research summary

The aim of this research is to find out how a professional learning community is built in a school in a conflict and post-conflict environment. This research will contribute to education reconstruction in conflict and post-conflict societies as no research has written on education reconstruction using the lenses of professional learning communities (PLCs) in these environments.

Description

This research reviews the core components of professional learning communities as the conceptual frame, and explains how schools develop into PLCs and the challenges they face. It defines conflict and post-conflict environments and then examine Liberia under pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict eras. How a PLC is buit in a school is shown and the core components that should be used in building a PLC in conflict and post-conflict environment are examined.

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Research info

Research title
Building a Professional Learning Community in a Conflict and Post-conflict Environment: A Case Study of a High School in Liberia

Research timeline
1.5.2010 - 1.1.2014

Keywords
collective creativity conflict environment core components Professional learning communities shared personal practice shared values and vision supportive conditions

Region
Africa

Countries
Finland, Liberia

Institution
University of Jyvaskyla
Education
Jyvaskyla, Finland

Head of research
David Nkengbeza

Partners
A High School in Liberia

Contact information
David Nkengbeza
0466350965
david.d.nkengbeza@jyu.fi

Record last updated
7.1.2014