<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Douglas and Ellis (2011, p. 175) suggest that institutionally universities and schools are required to work with different conceptual tool-kits. Seeking to minimise the potential standoff between academic and practitioner knowledge, and, therefore, to enhance the learning of student teachers, means, they suggest, rethinking both the social relationships and the processes of abstracting knowledge from experience. Lingard and Renshaw (2010) advocate that all education practitioners, policy makers and teachers, should have a researcherly disposition, be interested in research and knowledge production and see themselves as participants in the field of educational research broadly defined.</p></abstract>

Douglas and Ellis (2011, p. 175) suggest that institutionally universities and schools are required to work with different conceptual tool-kits. Seeking to minimise the potential standoff between academic and practitioner knowledge, and, therefore, to enhance the learning of student teachers, means, they suggest, rethinking both the social relationships and the processes of abstracting knowledge from experience. Lingard and Renshaw (2010) advocate that all education practitioners, policy makers and teachers, should have a researcherly disposition, be interested in research and knowledge production and see themselves as participants in the field of educational research broadly defined.

Developing Researcherly Dispositions in an Initial Teacher Education Context: Successes and Dilemmas

Education Department of St Patrick's College, Co Tipperary, Ireland

International Journal for Transformative Research

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Douglas and Ellis (2011, p. 175) suggest that institutionally universities and schools are required to work with different conceptual tool-kits. Seeking to...

Developing Researcherly Dispositions in an Initial Teacher Education Context: Successes and Dilemmas

Published Online: Sep 29, 2014

Page range: 45 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijtr-2014-0003

Keywords
self-study action research, living theory, transformative learning, professional development

© 2014 Mary Roche

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Developing Researcherly Dispositions in an Initial Teacher Education Context: Successes and Dilemmas

Published Online: Sep 29, 2014

Page range: 45 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijtr-2014-0003

Keywordsself-study action research, living theory, transformative learning, professional development

© 2014 Mary Roche

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
self-study action research, living theory, transformative learning, professional development