[Grammar] Why use "though" here instead of "as"?

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shwm

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Why use "though" here instead of "as"?


The research done on learning leadership reveals that innovation in this area takes place though teams of educators working in a network who are open to learning from each other, to co-operating with families and to interacting with other schools, the local community and other countries. In the new context of change and in a ref lexive society, networks have huge potential to generate learning dynamics based on openness, dialogue and co-operation. Hence innovation and reform are generated at the meso level of the community, enhancing interconnections, and spreading innovation right across the micro, meso and macro levels.


(See Chapter 6 "Promoting learning leadership in Catalonia and beyond" of a report titled "Leadership for 21st century learning" published by OECD in 2013. )


(The third paragraph of p.188. Here is the link: http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asse...1st-century-learning_9789264205406-en#page191)
 

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The sentence is very wordy and difficult to understand.
 
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I am not a teacher

Are you sure it's not a printing mistake ?
Through seems more appropriate .
 

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Yes, that is a typo. "Though" should be followed by an independent clause, which the clause stated is not. The sentence would make sense with the preposition "through".
 

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"Though" should be followed by an independent clause, which the clause stated is not.
What is stated is not a clause but a noun phrase.
 

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'...through' would make more sense to me, too.
 

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Why use "though" here instead of "as"?
I think 'as' could be used if 'working' was replaced with 'work', i.e. the noun phrase was changed to a clause.
 

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I think 'as' could be used if 'working' was replaced with 'work', i.e. the noun phrase was changed to a clause.

The research done on learning leadership reveals that innovation in this area takes place as teams of educators work in a network who are open to learning from each other, to co-operating with families and to interacting with other schools, the local community and other countries.

It would not work either as the sentence cannot connect with the subsequent phrases (underlined).
 

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It would not work either as the sentence cannot connect with the subsequent phrases (underlined).
It would work as 'who are open' can connect with the subsequent phrases (underlined).
 
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