| Tóm tắt: | This project used communities of practice to build distributed leadership capacity in staff committed to enhancing learning and teaching at ANU. The project approached communities of practice as groups of people who share a passion for something they know how to do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better. Through staged action research it sought to test if such communities were a suitable means for developing leadership capacity for staff engaged in teaching and learning. In implementation, the project faced conceptual, cultural and organisational challenges that led to profound shifts in participant focus, organisational context, underpinning ideas of leadership and of how this could be best developed. Embracing informal learning environment of communities of practice and their capacity to surface tacit knowledge, the project shifted its capacity development strategy away from individual skill development to an inquiry-based group learning approach targeting group process, personal agency, and distributed leadership. It piloted a Super Community of Practice of staff who were supporting communities of practice across campus as a means of accelerating leadership capacity building.
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