ESW Lunchtime Seminar:
Dphil Research-In-Progress
Wednesday 16th February, 1pm
Seminar Room 18, Essex House
Paul Fean presents:
‘What knowledge for teacher development?:
Insights from participatory action research with
Sudanese adult education teachers’
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This presentation is based on participatory action research
with teachers from youth and adult education schools in
Khartoum, Sudan. Paul explores how teachers clarified and
deepened their knowledge and became more experimental and
critical through their action research.
Using examples from the participant’s projects, discussion of
this teacher development process is framed with the
participant’s concepts of ‘focus’, being mufetih (observant and
analytical) and ‘being close’ to learners.
Paul will conclude that a main outcome of the action research
was a shift in the teacher’s understanding of authoritative
knowledge from abstract and fixed to contextualised,
contingent and partial – which is required for ongoing
practitioner-led research and innovation.
Work in progress seminars present opportunities for DPhil students to present
their work-in-progress, receive feedback on it and engage with other students
to discuss educational research, methodological issues and challenges in the
field.