Higher degree research as professional learning for teachers: A cohort perspective

(2017) Higher degree research as professional learning for teachers: A cohort perspective. Masters by Research thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

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This thesis explored how a cohort of six full-time teachers negotiated and explained their teaching practice as a result of their higher degree learning in a Master of Education. Reflections across multiple time phases of a research degree were analysed to understand how teachers negotiated the interdependent connections of knowledge production and reconstruction that occurred across their various ecologies of practices. The teachers reported an increasing confidence in critically evaluating and reflecting on their teaching practice, although the collisions between the circular time patterns of research learning and linear patterns of teaching practice were experienced as significant challenges.

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ID Code: 108055
Item Type: QUT Thesis (Masters by Research)
Supervisor: Willis, Jill & Ryan, Mary
Keywords: Cohort, professional learning, threshold crossings, Higher Degree Research, liminality, Masters of Education, part-time research, praxis, reflexivity, time
DOI: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.108055
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Education
Past > Schools > School of Cultural & Professional Learning
Past > Research Centres > Office of Education Research
Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Deposited On: 07 Aug 2017 01:03
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2017 14:42