Vocational teachers as researchers: a didactic approach to action research in a curriculum development project in VET

In this paper we will focus on a didactic approach to action research in a curriculum development project where vocational teachers play a main role as researchers. Important reasons for writing about this approach are: action research is an important research approach in the development of educational knowledge, but has not been so common in connection with vocational education; vocational teachers can be seen as the nearest to develop knowledge and do research on vocational curriculum and didactics; there may be a close connection between didactics and action research; and vocational didacti ... Show more

Authors: Hiim, Hilde; Stalhane, Jan

Published: [Berlin, Germany], EERA, 2016

Resource type: Conference

Physical description: 12 p.

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