Combining learning community and teachers professional development: an example of collaboration between university professors and researchers

Several research papers (AIPU, 2010) recognize, for over a decade, the need to develop different perspectives for continuous training of teachers at all levels of education, aiming to respond to the specific necessities of these teachers. The collaborative research presented is part of a research project conducted at the National University of Rio Negro (Argentina), with the aim of organizing learning communities (LC) in which members (university professors) share their experiences, problematize conceptions about the teaching / learning process and develop a culture of learning in collaboration with the researchers. This article firstly discusses the notion of learning community and its articulation as for the professional development, showing how the learning fit in one process of social partnership. Secondly, some dynamics of their operation that allow us to assert that the LC is a promising strategy for professional development, will be analyzed.