An Intersectional Approach to Professional Development Design: Design-Based Implementation Research in Practice

• In Event: Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

Professional development research has called for participatory and situated approaches that meet the needs of teachers’ individual and unique classroom contexts for decades. Many researchers have hailed Design-Based approaches as the methodological frames that can support such research. However, professional development research has not been able to keep up with rapidly changing needs of schools, teachers, and students as networked technologies change the production, consumption, and sharing of information. This paper asserts that the Design-Based Implementation Research framework is ideal for conducting professional development research that moves beyond providing existence proofs for innovative programs, and supports a sustainable, “intersectional approach” to PD that is valuable and valued.

Authors

• Rebecca Chiyoko Itow, Indiana University

• Daniel T. Hickey, Indiana University