Working with the different selves of teachers: beyond comfortable collaboration[1]
Open Access
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Action Research
- Vol. 6 (2) , 255-275
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09650799800200055
Abstract
This article reports on work with one teacher which illustrates the importance for those in universities who seek to serve teachers' development interests of: (i) recognising that action research is about assisting teachers in revisiting existing personal solutions and confronting them; (ii) being aware of the different (and sometimes conflicting) personal, ideological and educative selves that, together, constitute the teacher's world; and (iii) being prepared to move beyond the comfortable collaboration which often characterises accounts of higher education – school partnerships, recognising that change involves non-rational, as well as cognitive processes.Keywords
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