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By Walter McKenzie A millennium ago, artists and artisans formed guilds to share expertise and support one another in highly-skilled professional practice. These vibrant learning communities sustained artistry and craftsmanship through the dark ages when centers of learning were exclusive and rare. Much like these medieval guilds, professional learning communities (PLCs) provide a new dimension to professional development as educators flock around high-interest needs and topics. By definition, P
Vygotsky has given us the lens to understand learning from a sociocultural perspective. The professional learning communities construct aligns with the view that learning is mediated with others, through language, cultural artefacts and interaction with the environment, and has given way for thinking about how we personalise learning in the 21st century, which incidentally is not synonymous with individual learning - far from it.