Researching the Complexity of Classrooms

Autor/in	Turvey, Anne
Titel	Researching the Complexity of Classrooms
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 19 (2012) 1, S.57-65 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2012.649144
Schlagwörter	Classroom Research; Classroom Environment; Classroom Techniques; Teacher Collaboration; Context Effect; English Teachers; College School Cooperation; Research Methodology; Investigations; Educational Practices; Language Research; Learning Processes; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Klassenführung; Lehrerkooperation; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Untersuchung; Bildungspraxis; Sprachforschung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Großbritannien
Abstract	In recent years, it has become fashionable to demand of research that it produces "evidence" that can be turned into easily generalisable findings. Ever more elaborate sets of managerial standards and pre-defined learning outcomes have been imposed, and English teachers are encouraged to see their practice as merely an implementation of "what works." What gets lost in such discourse is the messy and wonderfully productive complexity of classrooms and the layered and deeply historied character of the interactions that take place in them. This article considers a different kind of research, one that is clearly located within particular contexts and is always attentive to the lives and capacities of the students and their teachers. At the heart of this article is the collaboration between a university academic and a practising English teacher, a collaboration that is both documented and enacted in "Confronting Practice, Classroom Investigations into Language and Learning" by Brenton Doecke and Douglas McClenaghan. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01