Building Collaboration by Richard Munt (2003) explores the importance of collaborative relationships. It also contains a variety of tools that can be used for negotiating, building and sustaining collaborative relationships.
There is a range of stages that we as future educators can follow to build collaboration. These include:
• Networking: Dialogue and common understanding. Clearinghouse for information, create a base for sup- port. No change to the organization.
• Cooperation: Matched needs limits duplication, more defined roles, modify activities to ensure that a task gets done.
• Coordination: Sharing resources, formalized links group decision making in the central group, focused on the issues.
• Coalition: Shared resources from the
There is a range of stages that we as future educators can follow to build collaboration. These include:
• Networking: Dialogue and common understanding. Clearinghouse for information, create a base for sup- port. No change to the organization.
• Cooperation: Matched needs limits duplication, more defined roles, modify activities to ensure that a task gets done.
• Coordination: Sharing resources, formalized links group decision making in the central group, focused on the issues.
• Coalition: Shared resources from the