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Karin Rönnerman; Anette Olin – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article investigates how knowledge, competence and actions develop among teachers enrolled in a Master's degree programme in action research who have an interest in changing practices in the schools in which they teach. We draw upon the insights of seven teachers who completed the programme (part-time over four years) to examine how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Professional Development, Educational Experience
Matthew F. Cheeseman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The North Carolina General Assembly, in 2013, mandated that the state use test scores, academic growth measures, and other outcome-based measures to create an A-to-F performance grading system for all public schools in North Carolina. The annual results are published via the North Carolina School Report Card, which indicates specific school,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Action Research, Educational Improvement, Professional Development
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Chen, Jingping – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
In this commentary, I interpret Xinying Yin and Gayle Ann Buck's collaborative action research from a social-cultural perspective. Classroom implementation of formative assessment is viewed as interaction between this assessment method and the local learning culture. I first identify Yin and Buck's definition of the formative assessment, and then…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Cultural Context, Action Research, Educational Change
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McCulla, Norman; Degenhardt, Leoni – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
The need to identify and suitably prepare teachers to undertake school leadership roles especially as principals is now well documented in the literature. Similarly documented is the general concern about the lack of suitable applicants willing to consider the role. This study raised the question of what might be learnt when a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training
Anne Grey; Vicki Hargraves – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2015
This case study involves self-study to explore one teacher's practice in regard to a particular curricular goal for early childhood education in Aotearoa, New Zealand. We combined a living theories action research methodology with grounded theory for data analysis. Studying one's own practice produced data that could be used to improve future…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Action Research
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Impedovo, Maria A.; Malik, Sufiana Khatoon – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In this article we consider the importance of reflective practice and research attitude for the professional development of in-service teachers. Nine teachers engaged in an international master's course (in a Belgium and French university) were interviewed to obtain self-narratives. The two year full-time master's course aims to develop skills in…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Researchers, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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Sydnor, Jackie – New Educator, 2016
In this qualitative study, five student teachers engaged in dialogic viewing of video of their own teaching with their university supervisor. The questions guiding this research included: (1) What do teacher candidates notice as they watch videos of themselves teaching in the company of their university supervisor?; (2) How does dialogic viewing…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Reflective Teaching
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Neame, Charles – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
Many institutional cultures resist change, and within universities academic developers vary their response to such resistance, depending on the type of change, the institution and their own characteristic styles, working preferences and strategic judgements. Variables influencing the successful introduction of innovation in academic practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices
Alidou, Hassana, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
One of the greatest challenges in education today is to adapt and respond to a linguistically and culturally diverse world, and to combat social disintegration and discrimination. Participatory and collaborative action research represents an empowering and emancipatory approach to this challenge because the "target groups" become…
Descriptors: Action Research, Youth Opportunities, Adult Literacy, Program Improvement
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Haynes, Joanna; Murris, Karin – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2011
Experience indicates that the questioning and democratic nature of the community of enquiry can be demanding and unsettling for teachers, presenting unaccustomed challenges and moral dilemmas. This paper argues that such significant episodes in the practice of Philosophical with Children (PwC) offer rich opportunities for wider critical reflection…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Action Research, Educational Practices, Moral Issues
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Lopez-Pastor, Victor M.; Monjas, Roberto; Manrique, Juan Carlos – Educational Action Research, 2011
This paper presents the experience of a group of teachers who have developed action research (AR) dynamics for 15 years aimed at their professional development and teaching practice improvement. The focus is first on the importance of AR, collaborative dynamics and theory and practice relationships for in-service teacher training. It also shows…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Cochrane, Thomas; Narayan, Vickel – Research in Learning Technology, 2013
This article evaluates the use of a community of practice model for redesigning a lecturer professional development course investigating the impact of mobile web 2.0 technologies in higher education. The results show a significant change in lecturer conceptions of pedagogy were achieved by this approach. Drawing on our experience of two iterations…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Web 2.0 Technologies, Influence of Technology, Instructional Effectiveness
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Fisher, Julie; Wood, Elizabeth – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2012
This article reports the development of the first two years of a three-year project that examines the effectiveness of adult-child interactions in the early years, and tracks the development of teachers' thinking and practice as they engage in practitioner-led action research. The Adult-Child Interaction Project involves practitioners who work…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Interaction
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Carter, Briony – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Partnership in teacher education is usually seen as needing to occur between the university and a school. This teacher education program, however, considers partnership across many stakeholders, in addition: employer authorities, community agencies and pre-service teachers themselves as active partners. Using Wenger's (1998) concept of communities…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Harrington, Ingrid – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Whole-School Professional Development (PD) days held regularly in schools are designed to promote and up-skill school staff on relevant areas of educational policy and practice. An aim of PD days is to empower participants with new knowledges and skills, and to confirm that current practices and interpretations of education policy and procedure…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Skill Development, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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