On the Organization of Research Communication and Knowledge Production in Teacher Education Research.

• In Event: Making Teachers, Making Knowledge: Professionalism, Partnerships, and the Politics of Evidence

Abstract

The teacher education research community is in focus. We ask how this research community is working over time and place, and how it is organized in networks dealing with different problems and intellectual traditions? What are the implications of this for knowledge production and future research development? To answer these questions, we used bibliometric resources and analyses of links between publications. We analyzed 20 000 publications presenting research on and for teacher education. Exploring links between publications resulted in different networks of research fronts and of intellectual traditions in teacher education research. We argue that teacher education research is dominated by a specific mode of knowledge production which demands certain research competences and reflections on the political in science-society interaction.

Authors

• Sverker Lindblad, Gothenburg University

• Gustaf Nelhans, University of Borås

• Katarina Samuelsson, Gothenburg University