Research as Mediator Between Teacher Education Policy and Practice: A Case Study

• In Event: 18.058 - MTCC Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: 18.058-1 - Adopting Practice and Policy for Interventions

Abstract

This paper explores the connections and relationships between policy, practice and research in a teacher education research for policy intervention in South Africa. The intervention aimed to identify the policy and institutional conditions for establishing Professional Practice schools, seen as schools that would provide quality learning environments for student teachers on their practicum.

The paper draws on the notion of “practice architecture” (Kemmis, 2009) to show how the conditions of research, policy and practice work relationally to support as well as conflict with one another. This framework makes explicit the ways in which different sectors think about, talk about, act upon and relate to the other sectors involved in the field of teacher education.

Author

• Maureen Robinson, Stellenbosch University