A model for mobilising new pedagogic knowledge to support curriculum change- the Association of IT in Teacher Education
Moira Savage- University of Worcester
Jon Audain- University of Winchester
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Challenges and opportunities for our teacher education subject association
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ITTE Knowledge Mobilisation Strategy:�Prof. Lawrence Stenhouse 1975
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Promote knowledge mobilisation to develop the teaching profession as a research-based profession.
The strategy endeavours to recognise the personal value to individuals of engaging in classroom/practice-based research (including practitioner inquiry and action research) balanced with the need to establish credibility and an element of generalisability across different settings.
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One perspective is that educational action research has not been as effective as other subject disciplines, for example, medicine, in systematically compiling and synthensising research outcomes into a useful reference body of work for students, professionals and policy makers.
“…each classroom is a laboratory…each teacher a member of a scientific community…[leading to] critical testing rather than acceptance” (Stenhouse 1975 p.142).
“Each classroom should not be an island…teachers working to such a tradition should communicate with one another…they should report their work…a common vocabulary of concepts and a syntax of theory need to be developed…If teachers report their own work in such a tradition, case studies will accumulate, just as they do in medicine” (Stenhouse 1975 p.157).
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Phase 1: review & synthesis of existing research
Phase 2: simultaneous & co-ordinated research
Feed forward & repeat…
IT in Teacher Education Research Fellowship Programme: Phase 1 2015-2016
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ITTE Fellowships worth up to £1000 are available to support a Research Fellow to lead a team in the review and synthesis of existing research on a topic of interest within the field of digital technologies in educational settings. Projects should support ITTE's main aim which is to enhance the use of digital technology in all phases of education through effective teacher education and training and across the range of any UK curriculum.
Applications for a Research Fellowship are welcomed from ITTE members who are Teacher Educators or Researchers in Higher Education or any related teacher training provider, including staff in Teaching Schools (Alliances, School Direct, Teach First, Strategic Partnerships etc.).
Research & publication continuum
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To put in place a process to engage the community (in the widest sense) by:
o participation in research projects (all stages), including publication, presentation and dissemination.
o providing relevant, interesting and classroom-based research outputs (including but not limited to- online case studies, newsletter, themed publication, special report, journal article e.g. TPE, MESH guide, news briefings…)
To support members of the community in carrying out research in a manner appropriate to their career stage, including but not limited to-
o trainee- exploring and reflecting on practice
o small-scale practitioner inquiry
o early career researcher
o deep research for publication etc.
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Please join us @ ITTE KMS http://www.itte.org.uk/kms
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Moira Savage - ITTE Research Officer
Twitter @moira_savage
Twitter @jonaudain