Within the field of education, collaboration comes in many guises:
teacher collaboration in the classroom (peer teaching/team teaching),
collaborative learning among learners themselves, collaborative research,
and collaborative curriculum development, to name some of the most
common. Whatever its particular form, collaboration involves deciding
goals together with others, sharing responsibilities, and working
together to achieve more than could be achieved by an individual on
their own. Collaborative learning can be seen to occur through dialogue,
social interaction, and joint decision-making with others, and these
shared processes contribute greatly to individual and collective growth,
as well as to co-constructed understanding and knowledge (Vygotsky
1978). Indeed, one of the major benefits of collaborative teacher
development—the mode of collaboration that will be focused on in the
remainder of this piece—is that it lets teachers move beyond their own
individual viewpoints by working with peers, and thus at the same time
lessens their dependency on outside experts ‘to a point where teachers
can learn from each other, sharing and developing their expertise
together’ (Hargreaves 1994: 186).

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