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10 SES 09 A, Research in Teacher Education: Cultures and Methodologies
Paper Session
Contribution
This paper reconsiders seemingly obsolete paradigm wars in education research, as a means to explain the continuing peripheralization of ‘context’ driven (Koutsouris and Norwich, 2018) qualitative and teacher-centred models of enquiry. Quietly enduring disparate philosophical and polemical positions in British education research, help to perpetuate tensions in the production and implementation of education policy into practice.
The authors adopt Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2015) to examine education research, policy and practice, by exploring text produced by gatekeepers within each education context. Acting as a theoretical precursor to a future model for change in education research (see Lowing and Govender, in preparation), the research offers alternative perspectives for key players, by encouraging educationalists to recognise 'naturalized' polarised and entrenched positions within education research, policy and practice. The paper solicits change, where audiences, predominantly within education research and practice, are encouraged to claim further agency, by repositioning themselves in adopting more empowering methodologies for the study of the complex field of education.
Method
The researchers adopt Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2015) to examine the positioning of education research in academic, policy and practice within Education. The presenters employ CDA to engage with the approaches and ideologies embedded in policy and educational research, including research related to teacher education programmes, by unpacking the internal contradictions, slippages and misnomers contained therein. In particular we consider text within the General Teaching Council for Scotland website, promotional text for key British Education Research journals and polemical text produced within on-line platforms such as 'The Conversation' and 'The Times Educational Supplement'. We, as researchers, acknowledge that, “all texts are positioned and positioning” (Janks, 2010: p61); the writer “produce[s] effects that position the reader”, in order that the text is, “to be believed” (ibid.). We adopt Fairclough’s (2015) model of CDA, as ‘description’, ‘interpretation’ and ‘explanation’ of the text is enabled, encouraging “multiple points of analytical entry” (Janks, 1997: p329).
Expected Outcomes
In conclusion, the researchers problematize the positioning of certain approaches to education research and the often 'tokenistic' use of 'enquiry-based' models of 'practitioner enquiry' in education policy and practice. Therafter, the researchers propose a model for change in practitioner research (see Lowing and Govender, in preparation), which requires education researchers and practitioners to claim further agency, by adopting emancipatory methodologies for the study of education.
References
Fairclough, N. (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis (London, Longman) Koutsouris, G. and Norwich, B. (2018) What exactly do RCT findings tell us in educational research?, British Educational Research Journal, 44(6), 939-959 Janks, H. (2010) Literacy and Power (Oxon, Routledge) Lowing, K. (in preparation) The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research Lowing, K. and Govender, N. (in preparation) Resurrecting the Educational Researcher: New Clothes for an Old King
Programme by Network 2019
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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