Collaborative professional inquiry: A powerful driver for teachers’ development of research-informed practice
2026, 71, Numer 1
Uniwersytet w Cumbrii
Uniwersytet w Hertfordshire
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This paper proposes ‘collaborative professional inquiry’ as the fundamental approach to effective professional development for teachers that supports the development of research-informed practice in schools. Teachers’ professional inquiry is considered as a collaborative endeavour borrowing from practitioner research, for example in terms of an action research design, focusing on lesson study, ethical controls to build trust, data generation and analysis, and dissemination. A rationale for professional inquiry includes the value it places on teachers’ practical wisdom, the way that it develops teachers’ epistemic insight in drawing on different sources of knowledge, how it builds teachers research literacy, and manages this within a realistic and sustainable workload. In contrast to previous proposals that tend to position teachers as consumers of knowledge within the field of education research, this proposal for professional inquiry positions teachers as producers of knowledge within the field of education.
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