A Contemporary Theory of Mathematics Education Research by Tony Brown

Author:Tony Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030551001
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

5.8.5 Research Is Directly Focused on Developing Practice

Many instances of education research are finely tuned on issues unlikely to be encountered in preservice training courses. Within school-based models, however, the students themselves may have the opportunity to participate in forms of practitioner-oriented research made possible by the immediacy of ongoing school practice (e.g. Hanley and Brown 2016, 2017). The university element that had often been irrelevant for many students in the first instance can later become an effective critical platform for inspecting and reflecting on their own school practices. This platform potentially provides an opportunity to articulate the shaping of practice from an alternative location in which everyday demands could be understood against a wider context. Rather than thinking what would work in the current placement school, the concern became that of thinking more broadly about what would work for them across schools more generally. So rather than student teachers being subservient to a map dictating the format of their practices, they had some influence over how the map was created and how it guided their generic practices as a teacher. These opportunities to connect school with university input featured less in the Bologna Process prevalent in most European countries since university and school phases are sequential.

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