Resilience Navigating Tensions: The Complexities of Implementing a Longitudinal School-Board University Research Program

• In Event: Teacher Education in Times of Social/Institutional Crisis

Abstract

This self-study explores the tensions navigated by two teacher educators in their implementation of a longitudinal school-board university research program. We illustrate the complexities of attempting to be responsive to unpredictable situations that arose, most of which were attributable to the continuously evolving educational context, priorities, needs, and interests of our school-board partners. Analysis of our experiences documented the applicability of the framework of Berry’s (2008) tensions as a lens to understand and engage in discourse about our reiterative dilemmas and how our resilience navigating these tensions fostered our growth as educational researchers. Enhanced understanding of these tensions may likewise enable others to understand and navigate issues that arise in their efforts to implement collaborative school-board university research projects.

Authors

• Arlene Grierson, Brock University

• Tiffany L. Gallagher, Brock University