Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)

Murphey, Tim

Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)

dc.contributor.author	Murphey, Tim
dc.date.accessioned	2012-04-16T23:58:05Z
dc.date.available	2012-04-16T23:58:05Z
dc.date.issued	2012-04-16
dc.description	Using group dynamics as an umbrella term for overlapping literatures on community, cooperative, and collaborative practices, I introduce the concept of PCOIz which might help teachers to better conceptualize their classes and the time-frame influences on their students. I position PCOIz as complementary to but different from communities of practice and imagined communities, and in some ways overlapping, with an emphasis on imagining and re-imagining. Using the Wicked Eyebrows figure below, we look at how teachers can systematically organize activities to look at students’ pasts, presents, and futures. I also present several mixed method studies done in Japan which indicate that PCOIz, when well developed, can nurture the aspirations, resilience, learning strategies, beliefs, motivations, and possible selves of its members through critical dialogue and collaboration.
dc.description.abstract	Using group dynamics as an umbrella term for overlapping literatures on community, cooperative, and collaborative practices, I introduce the concept of PCOIz which might help teachers to better conceptualize their classes and the time-frame influences on their students. I position PCOIz as complementary to but different from communities of practice and imagined communities, and in some ways overlapping, with an emphasis on imagining and re-imagining. Using the Wicked Eyebrows figure below, we look at how teachers can systematically organize activities to look at students’ pasts, presents, and futures. I also present several mixed method studies done in Japan which indicate that PCOIz, when well developed, can nurture the aspirations, resilience, learning strategies, beliefs, motivations, and possible selves of its members through critical dialogue and collaboration.
dc.format.extent	55 min.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/14557
dc.language.iso	en-US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	VD24
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
dc.subject	language learning
dc.subject	language teaching
dc.title	Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)
dc.type	Video
dc.type.dcmi	Moving Image