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Orbis scholae is an academic journal published by Charles University, Prague. It features articles on school education in the wider socio-cultural context. It aims to contribute to our understanding and the development of school education, and to the reflection of teaching practice and educational policy.
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ORBIS SCHOLAE, Vol 5 No 2 (2011), 7–29
The new lives of teachers: Research which influences
Christopher Day
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363177.2018.97
published online: 21. 02. 2018
abstract
The paper focuses upon external and internal challenges for the research and teaching communities – the perils as well as excitements of border crossings in research conducted on and in the policy and practice contexts which are associated with the new lives of teachers. The paper is organised in four parts. Part 1 deals with the scholar-practitioner dilemmas faced by university teachers and researchers. Part 2 raises issues about knowledge production in which the researcher is also a change agent. Part 3 focuses, briefly, upon what research tells us about key areas of importance which affect the work and lives of teachers in schools and the nature of professionalism which those who conduct research with teachers need to understand if they seek to influence them, directly or indirectly. Part 4 ends the address by focusing upon research in education, why we do what we do in the ways that we do it.
keywords: scholar-practitioner dilemmas of university researchers, researcher as change agent – knowledge production of a different kind, research knowledge about teachers’ work and lives of teachers, educational research obligations
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