Prof. Dr. Donald Freeman
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 17:30, HS 11.03
What makes doing teacher-research a political undertaking?
The ide of teachers researching in their own classrooms has been prominent for some time. It has become a feature of national policies, of professional teaching standards and expectations, and in many local school setting. There seem to be many impediments to widerspread uptake of teacher-research as a central tenet of being a teacher, however. This talk examines some of these impediments. Starting from the premise that combining teaching and researching - "working at the hyphen" as Cochran-Smith and Lytle first called it - I agree that doing teacher-research is fudamentally a political act. We will discuss what the impediments are and what can be done to address them.