Shared leadership, practice communities and vocational development of newly recruited teachers

The issue of community of practice in the last five years has aroused considerable interest in Italy, also in the more specific field of strategies or approaches in adult training and in organisations, stimulating a few research studies. This domain of study is in fact related to other areas of interest such as the analysis of specific forms of learning (organizational learning, network learning, etc.). Research studies on communities of practice revealed some phenomena that seem to characterize in an ever more distinctive way the modalities of spread and codification of professionals’ knowledge in social groups, both in business contexts and in other training contexts. The Department of Social Pedagogy in collaboration with the CEFORC Centre of Research “Continuing training & Communication”, which was created with the objective of organising activities of theoretical and applicative research in the field of continuing training and training processes in organizations.