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Medwell, Jane and Wray, David (2014) Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research : developing reflection and enquiry skills. Journal of Education for Teaching, 40 (1). pp. 65-77. doi:10.1080/02607476.2013.864018 ISSN 0260-7476.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2013.864018
Abstract
This paper reports on the development of reflectiveness and research skills in eight pre-service teachers, through their participation in a funded research project to develop the handwriting of children with literacy problems. The project aimed to analyse the reflections of the trainee teachers participating in an authentic research study and to consider what this reflection on practice might offer to the education of teachers in the current UK training context. The context for the paper was a project which engaged pre-service trainee teachers in researching the proposition that automaticity in handwriting plays a role in facilitating composing processes and that the automaticity of early writers can be trained. Some outcomes of the project for pupils are reported. The focus in the present paper is, however, on the participating trainee teachers and the paper suggests that conducting research was a significant learning event for these pre-service teachers and that, through working together, they were able to analyse their development as researchers and their learning during the research process. At a time when the English government views teacher training as a method of school improvement and the effectiveness of training is measured through its immediate impact on pupil outcomes, this study offers an example of how shared research can offer positive learning outcomes for pupils, develop the reflective thinking of pre-service teachers through researching a real problem, and develop links across a range of school and university settings.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Education for Teaching | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0260-7476 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 6 January 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 65-77 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/02607476.2013.864018 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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