TUTORIAL TASK 1:
TOPIC 1
BY: N O O R A M I R A H , N U R AT I Q A H , A M I R A H
NAJIHAH, NUR JANNAH
What is the relationship between teachers and
research in the educational context?
Research provides an insider perspective that allows
teachers to address the important question: What does
teaching mean? How do children learn?
When teachers conduct their own systematic research
into the problems they encounter in their classrooms
and schools, they do so not only to address issues that
existing research has not and perhaps cannot address,
but also with the intent of improving the lives of
children, their own practices, and the culture of the
classroom and school.
Research helps teacher to explain explicitly of why one
particular method/theory being used to serve the
problem addressed,
In what ways might research help the teacherresearcher review, evaluate and improve his or
her professional practice?
Gaining insights into teaching and learning, becoming
more reflective practitioners, effecting changes in the
classroom or school, and improving the lives of children
(CochranSmith & Lytle 1993, 1999).
Create new knowledge, or what may be called local
knowledge, about teaching and learning, that will
contribute to improving classroom practice.
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Helping schools develop new curriculum methods
or improving parent-teacher partnerships within
university lab school settings (Fu, Stremmel, & Hill
2002).
Become more reflective, more critical and
analytical in their teaching, and more open and
committed to professional development (Oja & Pine
1989; Henson 1996; Keyes 2000; Rust 2007).
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Teachers become more deliberate in their decision
making and actions in the classroom
Lead to rethinking and reconstructing what it means to
be a teacher or teacher educator and, consequently,
the way teachers relate to children and students.
Transformation, enabling teachers to develop a better
understanding of themselves, their classrooms, and
their practice through the act of reflective inquiry
(Stremmel, Fu, & Hill 2002).
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