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Teacher-Researcher Partnerships as Spaces of Co-Learning

Wed, April 23, 2:30 to 4:00pm MDT (2:30 to 4:00pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 303

Abstract

Although teachers are central stakeholders in partnership work, they often find themselves positioned as outsiders within the partnership. While there has been much research around teacher-researcher partnerships, specifically focusing on engagement challenges in partnership work, there is less research on the ways in which partners mitigate those challenges. This study explores the practices one teacher-researcher partnership engaged in to disrupt traditional roles and support collective learning experiences that created spaces to critically think and imagine, negotiate knowledge and meaning, and develop a trusting and humanizing relationship. Through an exploration of our practices of expanding political identities and scaling up, I provide a foundation which other teacher-researcher partnerships could adopt and adapt to create reciprocal learning spaces.

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