Choose to choose for educational research: Moving towards an optimistic future or a dead end?

Choose to choose for educational research: Moving towards an optimistic future or a dead end?

Sydney 2000 papers and abstracts

• Koo, Marianne Dept. of Educational Policy and Administration, School of Foundations in Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Melbourne

Australian Association for Research in Education

2000

Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (2000: Sydney)

• T Educational Research
  • TA Research Instruments & Methods
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
• D Curriculum
  • DD Primary Education Programmes

Educational Research Role Curriculum Development Action Research Participatory Research Reflective Teaching Personal Narratives Primary School Teachers Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

This paper describes a collaborative journey with a group of primary school teachers and principals within a context of curriculum change in Hong Kong. This collaboration, which builds on hope, trust, reflections and authenticity, elicits participants' 'voices' through narratives and conversations. An Action Research as iterative, critical and collaborative engages research participants to a research world which celebrates the success of change by improvement, the collaboration by mutual contribution to shared values and beliefs, and the reconstruction of curriculum work by ongoing critique and transformation. Teachers' stories, which are the constructs of their personal lives intertwined with professional lives, are embodied of participants' critical reflections on the place, space, purpose, content and process of teacher curriculum decision-making at the time of curriculum change. Through sharing and negotiation, ownership and participation as well as agreement and consensus, this action research empowers participants to act and talk in reflection about curriculum work for enhancing the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Reflecting on this collaborative research journey, the paper further poses a question when choosing to choose educational research. This question challenges researchers and other stakeholders to critically reflect on educational research whether it is moving towards an optimistic future or a dead end.
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Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the AustralianAssociation for Research in Education, 4-7 December 2000, Sydney. Conference theme: Education research: Towards an optimistic future.

• English

Conference Papers

• 13249339 (eISSN)

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/67950b01

2010-11-25