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This article traces some of the systemic challenges and opportunities for educational research capacity building that arise from Northern Ireland being uniquely positioned as a small polity. It also critically appraises how initiatives elsewhere to build capacity in teacher education, while providing valuable exemplars, are unlikely to transfer readily to this context.
Published: 2009
Updated: Nov. 09, 2009
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The need for capacity-building in teacher education in the UK has been raised as a serious issue by a number of commentators. This paper provides an analytical account of an initiative conducted by the Teacher Education Group (TEG) to build research capacity in teacher education. With reference to a review of the national contexts for research in the UK and research on teacher educators, the article argues that, in order to build research capacity initiatives we need to provide motivation and new types of networking opportunities for researchers, as well as developing their expertise.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 18, 2009
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This article investigates lessons learned from past distant collaborations. It details the present development of the Distributed Collaborative Research Model (DCRM) and invites colleagues in technology and teacher education to collaborate to demonstrate sound educational research in our field.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 25, 2009
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This theoretical paper is partly based on a series of empirical studies, conducted by the author, investigating students’ and teachers’ experiences and understanding of an internationalised educational context in Sweden. The paper examines and discusses some further implications of these studies in relation to recent publications and research concerned with internationalisation in higher education in various ways. The paper argues in favor of a shift in research perspective, from an overall external perspective to a relational, experienced and context-based perspective, to understand how internationalisation in higher education is developed in practice.
Published: 2009
Updated: May. 18, 2009
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The authors argue that conceptual and methodological limitations in existing research approaches severely hamper theory building and empirical exploration of teacher learning and collaboration through cyber-enabled networks. The article presents preliminary data to illuminate both the power and limitations of current tools and techniques for studying cyber-enabled networks using data from a large, mature online network of K-12 educators.The authors propose a research agenda designed to create and validate a new generation of research tools and techniques.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 25, 2009
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The paper highlights key online teacher professional development (oTPD) areas in need of research based on a review of current oTPD research. This research conducted in conjunction with an oTPD conference held at Harvard University in fall 2005. The authors highlight two areas that should serve as the nucleus of future research ventures: (a) research questions that address understudied areas and (b) design and methodological strategies for studying these questions.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 23, 2009
117
For over two decades, the boundaries between the social sciences and the humanities have become blurred. This paper focuses on explicit arts-based approaches that the authors employed in a 3-year teacher education study of professional conflicts experienced by novice bilingual teachers. Authors describe how they used the arts and to what end, addressing questions of artistic processes, expertise, and research validity.This study illuminated the range of experiences and emotions involved in novice bilingual teachers’ professional lives, signaling the value and validity of research that is both artistic and scientific.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 18, 2009
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Arts-informed inquiry has attracted a great deal of controversy in recent times as it has gained popularity as an educational research methodology in teacher education. The paper suggests principles for its use in exploring relevant questions in teacher education research and investigates some of the issues that have been used to challenge its integrity.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 09, 2009
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While mathematical knowledge for teaching has started to gain attention as an important concept in the mathematics teacher education research community, there is limited understanding of what it is, how one might recognize it, and how it might develop in the minds of teachers. In this paper, the authors propose a framework for studying the development of mathematical knowledge for teaching that is grounded in research in both mathematics education and the learning sciences.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 04, 2009
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This paper considers the status of research on PD. The paper explains the benefits offered by experiments in addressing current research needs. It also discusses the unique methodological issues encountered when experimental methods are applied to the study of PD.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jan. 28, 2009