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This chapter focuses particularly on collegiality, with a particular emphasis on Exploratory Practice (EP), and language education more generally, as a social practice. The stories presented here show the making visible (Iedema et al. 2013) of our everyday understandings, of working together to gain understandings from our practice as language teachers, language learners, and learners as teachers. As the Rio de Janeiro group indicate (see Quote Box 9.1), one of the major issues we face in classrooms is the need to be seen as humanised professionals. But in order to do this, we need to be willing to make ourselves vulnerable. And this requires trust. So how can we generate such trust in our classrooms?
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Hanks, J. (2017). Collegial Working. In: Exploratory Practice in Language Teaching. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45344-0_9
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