Research projects
The core research mission of PERG is to interrogate and challenge dominant ideologies, practices and discourses in the field of teacher education/teacher learning, with a view to creating conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches with practitioners and learner.
PERG has a broad research interest and remit, including:
- To act as a forum for academic and practitioner research and activity in teacher/teaching education in all its forms
- To develop work in key themes of local, national, and international interest in teacher/teaching education for practitioners, researchers, students, young people, education users, parents, communities, policy-makers and legislators
- To research and develop innovative, boundary pushing pedagogies and/or methodologies of teacher learning
- To explore creative methodologies across disciplines and fields on teacher/teaching education and teacher education research
- To work with practitioners, students, education users, education providers, policy-makers and legislators to explore and investigate the interface between policy and practice in teacher/teaching education
- To work with practitioners as researchers and build practitioner research capability
- To support the development of practitioner knowledge production
- To establish and sustain practitioner cultures that are developmental, reflexive and critical
- To provide discursive and research fora for teachers, academics and students that are orientated towards the production of resources of hope
- To organise local, national and international research events, activities and groups concerned with teacher/teaching education