Identity and Power: Teacher Research in U-S Partnership

• In Event: 32.084 - Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: 32.084-1 - Division K Section 8 Poster Session 3

Abstract

Teacher research is widely regarded as an effective way of teacher professional development. In China, “Jiaoyan”, a Chinese style of teacher research is popular. While with diffenent kinds of U-S partnership grow rapidly, “Jiaoyan”- teacher research seems to be not driven by practitoner teachers but univesity teachers or scholars. What is practitoner teachers’ self-image of their role as practitioner-researchers and how they do research is little explored. The paper aims at exploring the above two questions. By the observation of interaction between two parts of teachers, analysis of interview with practitoner teachers and their lesson study reports, the paper tries to figure out the teacher identity and power relation in doing teacher research.

Author

• Siying Chen, Hangzhou Normal University