Practitioner research

QCDA Building the Evidence Base Bruner Activity Protocol

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This discussion activity is designed to engage practitioners with stimulating ideas and evidence about curriculum innovation and to help them spot the connections with their own context and learning needs.

The activity stimulates lively and structured dialogue about how pupils experience the curriculum and how schools can build such experiences into a cumulative whole. Exploring the evidence in depth and in the context of their own and others’ practice will provide a stepping-stone to enable them to use theory and research to help them think more broadly and deeply about the curriculum and to plan further development.

QCDA Building the Evidence Base Bruner Summary

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Sometimes, when we encounter a change in teaching, such as a change of policy or a new strategy from CPD, we may be tempted to think we are simply returning full circle to ways we used to do things. But the experiences gained in the intervening years are a valuable part of the process of change. Working from a new starting point helps us to move earlier thinking further along. This is not just a case of recycling. Revisiting the ideas Jerome Bruner put forward about the curriculum nearly half a century ago demonstrates this well. They take on a new meaning when we consider them alongside recent developments such as assessment for learning and thinking skills.

Bringing Research Resources to Practitioner Users via Web Technology: Lessons Learned to date.

Summary Web resources for education , what's the problem?

Over the past few years there has been growing interest in making educational research more relevant to the concerns of consumers outside universities - in particular teachers. More and more schools and individual teachers are seeking to engage in and with research to inform their practice in a range of contexts, from classroom teaching strategies to leadership. Nowadays there is much more educational research on the web but is it accessible to teachers' What are the problems in finding relevant research through educational databases? Drawing on their experience of searching educational databases and on the results of a small scale informal survey of titles and abstracts a CUREE team explored a number of problems practitioners faced when trying to access educational research.

NERF Evidence Bulletin Issues

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Issue 1 - Summer 2004

Issue 2 - Winter 2004-05

Issue 3 - Summer 2005

Issue 4 - Autumn 2005

Issue 5 - Spring 2006

Issue 6 - Summer 2006