Developmental Research With Teachers

• In Event: Teachers as Researchers: Improving Practice Through Supported Inquiry

Abstract

This collaborative inquiry aims at learning to understand how teachers in schools and a mathematics teacher educator develop their work through participating in a developmental research project. Seven elementary teachers worked at improving their mathematics teaching and researched their practice together with a teacher educator for three years. Socio-cultural theories guided the development of a learning community with emphasis on inquiry approach. A model of a develop¬mental research cycle, with two interconnected cycles of development and research, was used as the framework for the research. The main findings are that partnership between teachers in schools and teacher educators, where the knowledge both parties bring into the project is mutually respected, can add to our understanding of teacher development.

Author

• Jonina Vala Kristinsdottir, University of Iceland