Collaborative cultures in education: sense of community of teachers and student teachers

Teacher communities create excellent conditions for teacher learning implying a sustainable form of teacher collaboration and collaborative learning. Sense of community of both teachers in secondary schools and student teachers was related to the perception of a collaborative group culture. Various aspects of sense of community of both teachers and student teachers showed to be related to their collaborative culture, with for teachers stronger relations with feelings of a shared domain and for student teachers with a shared interactional repertoire. Community context might offer accurate explanations for these differences between teachers and student teachers.