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Smith, Richard (2013) Foreward to "Teacher-research studies : inquiries from teacher perspectives". In: Dikilitaş, K., (ed.) Teacher-esearch Studies: Inquiries from Teacher Perspectives. Ankara, Turkey: Nobel. ISBN 9786053954576
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I first met Kenan Dikilitaş at an IATEFL Teacher Training and Education SIG symposium on ‘Researching Teachers’ in February 2012 in Istanbul. In the talk I’d just given I set out an argument for teacher-research despite the difficulties involved, and indicated some ways teachers can be supported to engage with and in research. Kenan came up to me afterwards in a state of some excitement and talked to me about the approach he’d been adopting as professional development coordinator in the English Preparatory School at Gediz University. Rather than providing conventional kinds of top-down teacher training input, which – he and I agreed -- can tend to passivize teachers, he had been encouraging his teachers to reflect on issues in their classrooms, read published research and do action research projects, thereby taking more control over their own development. This was the second year of the experiment, he explained, and the first time he’d really come cross any external validation for his approach. Would I be interested in visiting Gediz when I next came to Turkey and seeing for myself what he was doing?
I certainly was interested, as this kind of experiment – while not unique in my experience – is relatively rare, and absolutely worth supporting (I had become coordinator of the IATEFL Research SIG the previous year and was trying to guide the SIG towards more of a focus on supporting teacher-research, so the kind of experience Kenan described seemed to me something definitely worth finding out about and publicizing). I was in Izmir in April 2012 and conducted an interview with Kenan then, to learn more about how he had come to adopt this innovative approach to professional development. I also sat in on a presentation by one of the teachers (they all meet together every week for 40 minutes, and Kenan combines this with one-to-one meetings during the rest of the week).
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Publisher: | Nobel | ||||
Place of Publication: | Ankara, Turkey | ||||
ISBN: | 9786053954576 | ||||
Book Title: | Teacher-esearch Studies: Inquiries from Teacher Perspectives | ||||
Editor: | Dikilitaş, K. | ||||
Official Date: | June 2013 | ||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | Foreword to Dikilitaş, K. (ed.). Teacher-research studies : inquiries from teacher perspectives, Volume 2. Ankara: Nobel |
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