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Anna Koski; Mikko Puustinen; Janne Säntti; Jari Salminen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Teacher education in Finland has followed a research-based approach for decades, but the approach has rarely been investigated from the viewpoint of in-service teachers. This study explores how in-service teachers experienced the meaning of educational science, research and theory (ESRT) and how teachers engage with educational research as part of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Work Environment
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Hennessy, Jennifer; Lynch, Raymond – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
Operating across the 'marshy epistemological divide' created between schooling and academia, the role of pre-service teacher researchers presents a unique set of challenges and responsibilities. This paper reports on a follow-up study exploring the attitudes of a multi-disciplinary cohort of graduand teachers towards the use and conduct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Epistemology, Graduate Students
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Loughran, John – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The background to this paper is based on the ongoing need to place more attention on the importance of teaching. The aim in so doing is to lead to a better valuing of teaching which, in the case of this paper, is through an exploration of the notion of teaching as a discipline. There are differing views about that which constitutes a discipline…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intellectual Disciplines
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Martin, Andrea K.; Russell, Tom – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Analysis of our own experiences teaching in preservice teacher education programs leads us to a range of insights, issues, and questions associated with the potential of seeing teaching as a discipline. We begin with the reality that teaching and teacher education appear to students as easy activities, while those who actually do them see them as…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intellectual Disciplines
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Hennessy, Sara; Deaney, Rosemary – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The "T-MEDIA" project analysed and documented how teachers exploit the use of projection technologies--data projectors and interactive whiteboards (IWBs)--to support learning in secondary-school subject lessons. The research involved collaboration between university researchers and four pairs of UK teachers (of English, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Baumfield, Vivienne; Butterworth, Marie – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
Whilst there is a growing body of literature on practitioner research and the role of collaborations and partnerships that include universities in that process, there are relatively few studies examining the role of the university in any depth. We reflect on 12 years of working in school-university collaborative research partnerships through an…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Collegiality, Social Networks
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Gore, Jennifer M.; Gitlin, Andrew D. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
In this paper, we explore the divide between academics and teachers over the production and use of knowledge. Teachers' views (pre-service and inservice teachers from both Australia and the United States) on educational research are utilized to better understand and [re]vision this divide. These teachers overwhelmingly dismissed academic research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Theory Practice Relationship
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Thornley, Christina; Parker, Rae; Read, Karon; Eason, Vivienne – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This paper discusses a combined university-school research project involving three associate teachers from the pre-service teacher education degree at the University of Otago, New Zealand in the examination of their literacy teaching practice. The provision of resources for this collaborative study allowed the teachers to design the project in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Educators