Qualitative Research, Professional Development and the Role of Teacher Educators: fitness for purpose
Titel:
Qualitative Research, Professional Development and the Role of Teacher Educators: fitness for purpose
Auteur:
Day, Christopher W.
Verschenen in:
British educational research journal
Paginering:
Jaargang 21 (1995) nr. 3 pagina's 357-369
Jaar:
1995-06
Inhoud:
This paper focuses upon the purposes, prejudices, practices and contexts of those who teach education in all its forms within higher education and schools. It examines some of the difficulties and challenges those in education departments whose significant history is school teaching face in extending their own learning opportunities as part of their moral purposes as professionals engaged in the 'betterment' of education, and it will suggest routes for research which might contribute to their thinking and action and thus, ultimately, to the education of students and pupils. There are, of course, examples of tutors in higher education engaging in development through 'reflective practice' and of pre-service teacher education courses which are based upon notions of reflective practice. The purpose of this paper, however, is to examine the roles and responsibilities of teacher educators through an analysis of their historical, social and psychological contexts and, through this, to propose a particular partnership model of qualitative research and development which appears to 'fit' closely to purpose.
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