Session Information
00 SES 05.1 Keynote, A U.S. Perspective on Teacher Preparation Research: Past, Present and Future
Keynote Speaker
The Keynote will be streamed to room B020
Contribution
Research on teacher preparation is an emerging, complex, and multi-faceted field, influenced by competing ideas about the purposes of research and the goals of education. This keynote address will focus on the past, present and future of teacher preparation research. Combining ideas from the sociology of knowledge with ideas about research as social practice, this presentation will be based on the perspective of "teacher preparation research as situated social practice," a process wherein differently-positioned researchers with diverse aims and objectives engage in multiple configurations of research practices, which emerge from and are located in complex social, historical and political contexts. The point of the presentation will be to consider not simply the various research methods that have been employed in research on teacher preparation over time, but also to consider the purposes of research and the relationships between research practices and social, economic and institutional power. The presentation will draw on previous reviews of teacher preparation research as well as the presenter’s review of more than 1500 recent studies of teacher preparation, with the majority from the U.S., but also with many from Europe and the Asia Pacific area. Multiple examples will be used to convey major historical, methodological, and conceptual trends in the sprawling field of teacher preparation research.
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