Mind the gap both ways: how teaching informs research decisions (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

This is a co-written paper. All the writers are currently engaged in research that involves using theory to inform our classroom practice. The gap between research and practice is usually understood to refer to the gap that prevents academic research from impacting upon the day to day practice of teachers but in this paper we flip this around and ask instead how the practices and conventions of teaching shape the way that we work as researchers, this includes among others: the design of research questions, the methodological choices that we make and our strategies for dissemination. Schools move at a much faster pace than the conventions of research accommodate. They are places where day to day decisions are made rapidly and continuously regardless of whether research is being conducted. This disconnect between the conventions of research and the working processes of schools gave rise to action research and teacher leadership methodologies as possible solutions to this issue, and wi...

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