Session Information
19 SES 14 A, The Importance of the Local when Analysing Pedagogic Institutions and Practices
Symposium
Contribution
The topic of this presentation is to study teachers’ participation in R&D work, framed by the research question: “How do different levels of management influence teachers’ interest in doing development work?” We will contextualize development work in the landscape between central educational reform ideas and ideas of local implementation. Methodologically the work is carried out as a R&D project where 2 researchers and 17 teachers cooperated for 2 years to develop new assessment practices in a city school in grade 1-5. Data consist of classroom observations, meetings and interviews with teachers during the development work period, and with the principal and an executive of the local education authorities. Findings at the end of the development work showed that the majority of the teachers felt enthusiasm and ownership to the project, and that nearly all wanted to continue on their own. One year later, this number had declined to very few teachers. The reasons they gave were time limitations or lack of interest from the leadership resulting in resignation and a feeling of not being valued for their work. To understand this change of interest we had to search for answers outside the teacher team.
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