Luís Tinoca is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon, and an active researcher in the areas of teacher education, competence-based curriculum design, innovative learning environments, and Higher Education Pedagogy. He is a member of the Education Research and Development Unit, and a collaborator at the Distance Education Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. He currently coordinates the LC4Inclusion - The Journey of Schools as Learning Communities for Inclusion project and was recently the national coordinator of the EDiTE and EdUSchool projects. For more please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/luistinoca/
School Based Learning Communities – professional development, research and interventions intertwined
In this presentation we will discuss school based learning communities and their transformative potential, developing contextually relevant interventions and fostering participants professional development through innovative collaborative research bringing together schools and universities.