Engaging with research
Engaging with research often involves a dance between relevance, resonance and ‘truth’.
Questions to consider while critically engaging with research
• Is the research relevant to you as a teacher?
• Does it resonate with your beliefs and experience?
• Is this research representing ‘truths’ which are credible?
• What are the implications of this research for me/my school?
“I’m a big Twitter user and I think that’s where I get to learn about what research has come up. Somebody will post it. I follow a lot of authors and book people and they will post certain articles […] I’m sat in the library and that is why I’m looking around, I see books. The Teresa Cremin research, what is useful for that, it’s teachers doing like mini research projects, not official, but they upload them to the site.”
Relevance and Resonance
Some notes and questions about different motivations for engaging with research
“Truth”
Some notes and questions for exploring the complexities and insights of research claims
Glossary of key terms
A brief introduction to the information included in academic research publications and to the different kinds of academic research
Teacher perspectives
Get into conversation with different viewpoints: A selection of quotes from primary teachers about their encounters and challenges with research