Using Virtual Learning Communities in Shaping the Professional Identity of Primary and Preschool Pedagogy Specialization Students: A Knowledge Management Approach

AbstractThis paper explores the relationship between using virtual learning communities in initial education process and the development of students’ professional identity, by examining the most recent contributions in this field and by proposing a new strategy of knowledge management, at university level, that harness the virtual learning environment's potential, based on mobile learning models. In addition to that, the paper proposes a strategy for empowering higher education institutions to use VLCs in order to improve primary school teachers’ professional identity highlighting especially the requirements, curriculum and evaluation of such a strategy, focusing on the existing best practices on international level