Redefining Teachers' Interactions and Role Awareness

Abstract

This chapter's goal is to identify the teacher mental framework oriented to knowledge management (KM) and compatible to the ubiquitous Nonaka's model, regarding the sharing and collaboration practices found in the EU platform eTwinning. The pilot-study shows that when information and communication technology (ICT) skills become standardized, teachers' behavioral attitudes related to sharing and collaboration should be observed from a more holistic perspective. The first part provides a general description of Nonaka's model in connection with the education sector. The second part offers a bird's eye view of the European context framed by EU Acts and frameworks of reference to identify the roots of an emerging teaching profile linked to the awareness of knowledge flow. The third part presents a pilot research involving the idea of innovation related to the growing attitudes of digital collaboration and sharing. Within the eTwinning practice-context, this chapter proposes to switch the general approach from a teacher learning perspective to a teacher “knowledge management” standpoint.