Teacher Research in Teacher Education

Author(s):  
Lisa Kervin ◽  
Barbara Comber

Teacher research is well established internationally. Teacher research serves an important role for teacher education, both as the object of academic study and as a practice within programs and the profession. Teacher research has the potential to build teacher knowledge for practice, in practice, and of practice. An understanding of the role of research in these different types of knowledge, enables a demonstration of both the richness of and potential for the education field. Research has an important role in both preservice and in-service education and the potential to bring about change personally, professionally, and politically.

Author(s):  
Teresa De la Hera Conde-Pumpido

The academic study of persuasion through digital games started from a game-centric approach by trying to understand how persuasiveness can be structured within digital games. However, players' performances and the context in which games are played also have an important role in the process of persuasion. The role of these two factors has been the focus of attention in recent research on persuasive games through studies that try to find a balance between players’ preferences and needs and persuasive goals. The objective of this paper is to broaden the understanding of the potential of persuasive gaming practices by providing a theoretical framework that serves to structure previous theoretical approaches on how digital games can be used to persuade players. This theoretical framework serves to explain the different types of persuasion that can be established through digital games, which contributes to better understand how serious games should be designed to respond to different types of serious goals. The three types of persuasion proposed here are: exocentric persuasion, as a game-centric approach for persuasion; endocentric persuasion, as a player-centric approach for persuasion; and game-mediated persuasion, as a context-centric approach for persuasion.


Author(s):  
Nick Kelly

Initial teacher education is increasingly happening online, both formally and informally, within networks that are commercial, institutional, governmental, and research-driven. These networks make use of the capabilities of the internet and related technology to better support teachers. The scholarship of teacher learning within online networks can be divided into four main strands: network design, outcomes from network participation, agency within the network of networks, and critical perspectives on online networks of teachers. Online networks are designed environments, and there are design decisions involved in developing different types of teacher network. Research into networked learning provides a common language for talking about these networks that allows for articulation of transferable design principles and comparison between networks. Some studies of networks of teachers are conducted with a focus upon the forms of social support that teachers provide for each other. These studies look to understand the role of online networks within the profession, and to contribute to growing and testing the base of theoretical knowledge about how teachers can be better supported through online networks. There is a growing strand of literature that focuses upon how teacher agency can be developed so that each teacher can take advantage of a world in which online networks are prevalent and can use them to flourish within the profession. Teachers can learn to develop their own professional learning network that makes use of existing online networks. While there is much optimism about the potential of online learning networks to support teachers and serve the profession, there are also perspectives that are critical of the widespread embrace of online networks by teachers and the way in which this development is changing the profession.


2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Hennecke

This paper discusses the role of cultural specific text elements in the constitution of the meaning of the text and focuses the problems which these elements can cause in the translation process. It is based on a description of the translation process as symbiosis of the three categories language, text and culture in a specific situation. The described comprehension of translation turns the question of the methodology of the cultural transfer into a key question that consequently has an impact on the praxis and didactics of translation. The meaning of a text is the result of a complex interaction of different systems in which different types of knowledge are activated. The central question is how culture manifests itself within texts and how these manifestations can be reconstructed, i.e. how the translator's decisions can be made transparent in the context of the transfer. Firstly there is a theoretical reflection on the interdependence of the three categories language, culture and text in which the underlying semiotic conception of text and culture is outlined. On this basis a pragma-semiotic model of the constitution of the text as a complex sign is presented, and a methodology for an integrative text analysis is deduced from this theoretical conception of text constitution. The different forms of cultural specific elements are analyzed and categorized, whereas in addition to the traditional manifestations the concept of intertextuality is introduced and discussed as an important fact for the pragmatic and cultural coherence of the text. The defined forms of cultural specific text elements are illustrated by a number of examples taken from translation praxis and classroom. All the examples are translations from Spanish into German. Finally, the practical and didactical implications, which are of great importance for the training of further translators, are discussed.


Neophilology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Leonidovich Sharandin

Considered the problem of relations between such concepts as integration of language levels, category of person and anthropocentrism in the context of the ideas of professor S.G. Ilyenko. This is not accidental, since this problem is presented in her works as having a methodological character in connection with the recognition of anthropocentrism and integration as the main principles of the description of the language system. The key and organizing role in their interrelation is played by the category of the person which in various forms of its realization is present at different language levels and in communicative activity of the person as a whole. This allows us to consider the concept of integrative communicative space, which is represented as a unity created by the interaction of different types of knowledge: 1) knowledge obtained as a result of reflection and interpretation of reality; 2) knowledge of the language system used as a means of cognition of this reality and communication. As a result, communication is the highest level that allows you to compare information at different levels, and forms on their basis integrative unity, the integrity of which ensures the implementation of the language of its main function – communicative.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Jaydeep Balakrishnan ◽  
Chun Hung Cheng

Abstract Given the creation of different types of knowledge propositions in project and production management, we discuss what we call ‘evangelical’ propositions and what as knowledge intermediaries our role should be in its dissemination. We examine both proposition accuracy as well as the process by which the proposition was arrived at. We suggest strategies for knowledge intermediaries to adopt in order to achieve balance in evaluating these developments. Further, we support our suggestions by examining the development of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and the debate that has accompanied these, as a case study. The debate relates to how much of the knowledge proposition in these is really new and whether the method of developing the proposition was lacking in some sense. Knowledge intermediaries, those who are expected to play an important role in disseminating knowledge, will be better prepared to deal with similar innovations in a balanced manner, by analyzing the case of TOC/CCPM.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-393
Author(s):  
Nina Engelhardt

This article examines how science fiction literature illustrates that exploring the “space above” and journeys toward it necessitates engaging with different types of knowledge, not least scientific-technological and imaginative ones. Scholarship in geography and urban and social studies has recently experienced what has been called a “vertical turn,” that is, a growing attention to the third dimension of space, and researchers call for more interdisciplinary experiments and commitment. This article argues that fictional literature is a valuable source of inquiry and, moreover, that it is precisely science fiction itself that illustrates the need to draw on various types of knowledge in order to explore issues of verticality and the space above. It examines an early modern text from a period before technological ascent into space became possible and a 20th-century novel set at the beginning of the rocket age: Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone; or a Voyage Thither, written sometime after 1628 and published in 1638, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). Both texts illustrate that scientific-technological and imaginative investigations of “the above” are inseparable and emphasize the role of the imagination in fictional as well as in technological ascents. Moreover, in these texts, travelling into the space above involves complex ethical and moral dimensions. Exploring these in relation to the inseparability of scientific-technological and imaginative investigations, the analysis of the science fiction texts also develops the ethical and cognitive value of making scholarly analysis of verticality an interdisciplinary endeavor.


2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nowack

Attempts to circumvent presidential term limits in African countries show a puzzling variation of success or failure. This variation is due to both international and domestic factors. However, how these interact is not yet well understood. This article analyses how international donors and organisations intervened in the attempted term limit circumvention in Malawi from 1999 to 2003. It differentiates between different types of instruments used by donors in democracy promotion, and, by doing so, contributes to the question whether donors in term limit struggles can contribute to genuine democratic consolidation. It employs deductive process-tracing based on an analysis of primary media sources and interviews conducted during field research. The results show that erosion of party support as a proximate and a strong civil society response as a mediate factor were important in saving Malawi’s term limit. Aid conditionality and democracy promotion by donors and international organisations exerted influence on both factors.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Anggraini Sukmawati ◽  
M Syamsul Maarif ◽  
Marimin Marimin ◽  
Hartrisari Hardjomodjojo ◽  
N S Indrasti

<em>Given the crucial role of knowledge creation in contemporary business enterprises, a fundamental question arises: what processes are facilitating knowledge creation?  This study aims to find the answer.This study investigates the interrelations among four categories of knowledge assets (experiential, conceptual, systemic, and routine) and four categories of SECI model for knowledge creation processes (socialization, externalization, combination , and internalization). In our framework, we argue that different types of knowledge assets may have differing influences on knowledge creation. In order to test the feasibility of this framework, we conducted an empirical research exercise.  Data were collected from three dairy cooperations in Java, Indonesia through a survey instrument. A total of 105 usable responses were analysed. We employed regression analysis, ANOVA and canonical correlation analysis to examine the separate correlations. We identified four responses interrelationhips from this study. Compared to other knowledge assets, conceptual knowledge assets have a greater effect on socialization of knowledge creation process. Experiential knowledge assets have  a greater effect on combination. Routine knowledge assets have a greater effect on externalization of knowledge creation process. Systemic knowledge assets have a greater effect on internalization of knowledge creation process.</em>


Author(s):  
Neuma Teixeira dos Santos ◽  
Roberta Modesto Braga ◽  
Adilson Oliveira do Espírito Santo

ResumoÉ papel fundamental da universidade proporcionar aos seus graduandos em formação articulação entre os diversos saberes. Nesse aspecto, as relações, propostas na literatura entre a Modelagem Matemática e os sete saberes da complexidade de Edgar Morin, podem ser potencializadoras de aprendizagem em uma atividade de formação e ambientação no manguezal da reserva extrativista marinha de Tracuateua-PA para monitoramento da vegetação de mangue por ser uma responsabilidade de cogestão de toda a sociedade a conservação desses ambientes. Para alcançar o objetivo nessa pesquisa, qual seja o de discutir os resultados de uma atividade de Modelagem a partir dos sete saberes no contexto da temática ambientação no manguezal, foi realizado um minicurso envolvendo estudantes de diversas graduações, professores universitários e comunitários e, a partir da descrição da observação participante, diário de campo, dos relatórios e questionários produzidos pelos estudantes, foi possível perceber que todas as ações caminharam dialogando com o princípio do pensamento complexo e a Modelagem ocorreu de forma livre, mostrando que mesmo não sendo definida a priori, as etapas estiveram presentes em todo o processo. Diante do exposto, enfatiza-se que as atividades transdisciplinares devem ocorrer sem delimitações e as fronteiras tradicionais da estrutura universitária devem ser enfrentadas no processo de construção das aprendizagens necessárias para o enfrentamento dos desafios do século XXI.Palavras-chave: Conservação, Monitoramento, Transdisciplinar, Universidade.AbstractThe fundamental role of the university is to provide its undergraduate students with articulation among the different types of knowledge. And in this respect, the relationships proposed in the literature among Mathematical Modeling and the seven knowledge of Edgar Morin's complexity can be an enabler of learning in a formation and  ambiance activity in the mangrove to monitor mangrove vegetation because it is a responsibility of co-management of society the conservation of these environments. To achieve the objective of this research to discuss the results of a Modeling activity based on the seven knowledge in the context of the mangrove environment, a workshop was held involving students from different degrees, university and community professors and from the description of field observation, from the reports and questionnaires produced by the students, it was possible to notice that all actions walked in agreement with the principle of complex thinking and the Modeling occurred freely, showing that even if it was not defined a priori, the steps were present throughout the process. Given the above, it is emphasized that transdisciplinary activities must take place without boundaries and the traditional boundaries of the university structure must be faced in the process of building the learning necessary to face the challenges of the 21st century.Keywords: Conservation, Monitoring, Transdisciplinary, University.ResumenEs papel fundamental de la universidad proporcionar a sus estudiantes de pregrado una articulación entre los diferentes tipos de conocimiento. Y en este sentido, las relaciones propuestas en la literatura entre el Modelaje Matemático y los siete conocimientos de la complejidad de Edgar Morin pueden ser un facilitador del aprendizaje en una actividad de capacitación y montaje en el manglar para monitorear la vegetación del manglar porque es una responsabilidad del co-manejo de la sociedad para la conservación de estos ambientes. Para lograr el objetivo de esta investigación para discutir los resultados de una actividad de modelación basada en los siete conocimientos en el contexto del escenario temático en el manglar, se realizó un mini-curso en que fueron envueltos los estudiantes de diferentes titulaciones, profesores universitarios y comunitarios y a partir de la descripción de la observación de campo, de los informes y cuestionarios elaborados por los estudiantes, se pudo percibir que todas las acciones caminaron en sintonía con el principio del pensamiento complejo y el Modelaje ocurrió libremente, mostrando que a pesar de no se haber definido a priori, los pasos estuvieron presentes en todo el proceso. En vista de lo anterior, se enfatiza que las actividades transdisciplinarias deben desarrollarse sin fronteras y las fronteras tradicionales de la estructura universitaria deben ser enfrentadas en el proceso de la construcción de los aprendizajes necesarios para enfrentar los desafíos del siglo XXI.Palabras clave: Conservación, Monitoreo, Transdisciplinario, Universitario.


Author(s):  
Teun Van Dijk

In this paper, I discuss some aspects of one of the thorniest problems of the theory of discourse processing: The role of knowledge in the production and understanding of discourse. Although there are a large number of articles and books on this topic, some very fundamental questions have as yet hardly been asked. Firstly, I review the scant references to the role of knowledge in discourse processing and then I outline a tentative typology around four groups of knowledge. I then address the key question of how these different types of knowledge play a role in discourse processing, focusing on some hypothetical processes involved in the production of discourse. I finish with a call for an explicit theory of text processing that integrates context models.


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