We wished to extend this work by more fine-grained case studies, focusing on good practices. Our cases are outliers, NETs in partnership with LETs who were able to instigate positive forms of collaboration in their schools. The justification for the case
studies is that we need examples of successful practices in order to provide
a basis for ongoing improvement of collaboration between NETs and LETs.
Learning from cases is an important means of development. Thus, these particular
cases represent ‘illuminatory instances’ (Holliday, 2002) whose purpose
is to exemplify the experience of two groups of teachers.
Our choice of cases arose from NETs viewed by the school community as good
collaborators. The cases are Anna, a highly experienced language arts teacher
and teacher adviser from Australia; and Pat, an Irishman, a qualified counsellor
and foreign language major, who had previously worked for three years on the
JET scheme. Anna was approached as a research participant because her collaborative work had been publicised in a good practices publication (Education
Department, 2000), while Pat was approached because he had been described
by his panel chair5 as ‘the NET from paradise’. Based on Hong Kong norms,
Pat’s students were of above average academic ability, while Anna’s were
somewhat below average. Team teaching in Hong Kong secondary schools
is rare (Storey et al., 2001) and that both Anna and Pat had been team teaching
in their schools for four years was indicative of their special qualities which
we believed could illuminate collaborative practice. Further contextual background6
is not provided for reasons of space and because our intentions are to
raise issues for further exploration rather than to make universal claims.
We wished to extend this work by more fine-grained case studies, focusing on good practices. Our cases are outliers, NETs in partnership with LETs who were able to instigate positive forms of collaboration in their schools. The justification for the casestudies is that we need examples of successful practices in order to providea basis for ongoing improvement of collaboration between NETs and LETs.Learning from cases is an important means of development. Thus, these particularcases represent ‘illuminatory instances’ (Holliday, 2002) whose purposeis to exemplify the experience of two groups of teachers.Our choice of cases arose from NETs viewed by the school community as goodcollaborators. The cases are Anna, a highly experienced language arts teacherand teacher adviser from Australia; and Pat, an Irishman, a qualified counsellorand foreign language major, who had previously worked for three years on theJET scheme. Anna was approached as a research participant because her collaborative work had been publicised in a good practices publication (EducationDepartment, 2000), while Pat was approached because he had been describedby his panel chair5 as ‘the NET from paradise’. Based on Hong Kong norms,Pat’s students were of above average academic ability, while Anna’s weresomewhat below average. Team teaching in Hong Kong secondary schoolsis rare (Storey et al., 2001) and that both Anna and Pat had been team teachingin their schools for four years was indicative of their special qualities whichwe believed could illuminate collaborative practice. Further contextual background6 is not provided for reasons of space and because our intentions are toraise issues for further exploration rather than to make universal claims.
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