Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students
In this article, we explore how three campuses implemented professional learning communities (PLCs) in order to create institutional change in support of culture change (toward ecological validation) to support at-promise student success. The study explores the process of learning within the PLCs,...
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| author | Adrianna Kezar Ronald E. Hallett Zoë B. Corwin Liane I. Hypolite Mariama N. Nagbe |
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In this article, we explore how three campuses implemented professional learning communities (PLCs) in order to create institutional change in support of culture change (toward ecological validation) to support at-promise student success. The study explores the process of learning within the PLCs, examines facilitators of learning ecological validation, and discusses the viability of PLCs as a vehicle to undergo such learning in support of institutional culture change. The findings identify six conditions that support learning within PLCs in higher education settings aimed at culture change and these are distinctive from findings in the K-12 literature on PLCs.
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| spelling | doaj-art-f8b5fc719d354821b011403cbf2aa11e2025-01-29T21:54:31ZengFlorida State Open PublishingJournal of Postsecondary Student Success2769-48792769-48872025-01-014210.33009/fsop_jpss135212Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized StudentsAdrianna Kezar0Ronald E. Hallett1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4800-4663Zoë B. Corwin2https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8367-1606Liane I. Hypolite3Mariama N. Nagbe4Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaCalifornia State Polytechnic University, PomonaUniversity of Southern California In this article, we explore how three campuses implemented professional learning communities (PLCs) in order to create institutional change in support of culture change (toward ecological validation) to support at-promise student success. The study explores the process of learning within the PLCs, examines facilitators of learning ecological validation, and discusses the viability of PLCs as a vehicle to undergo such learning in support of institutional culture change. The findings identify six conditions that support learning within PLCs in higher education settings aimed at culture change and these are distinctive from findings in the K-12 literature on PLCs. https://journals.flvc.org/jpss/article/view/135212student successlow-incomefirst-generationracially minoritized studentsculture change |
| spellingShingle | Adrianna Kezar Ronald E. Hallett Zoë B. Corwin Liane I. Hypolite Mariama N. Nagbe Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students Journal of Postsecondary Student Success student success low-income first-generation racially minoritized students culture change |
| title | Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students |
| title_full | Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students |
| title_fullStr | Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students |
| title_short | Professional Learning Communities and Institutional Culture Change in Higher Education: Facilitators to Learning Ecological Validation to Support Historically Marginalized Students |
| title_sort | professional learning communities and institutional culture change in higher education facilitators to learning ecological validation to support historically marginalized students |
| topic | student success low-income first-generation racially minoritized students culture change |
| url | https://journals.flvc.org/jpss/article/view/135212 |
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