Educational Research

Educational Research

Introduction

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There have been issues about the role and value of research in education. The main issue is the [deep] gap between theory and practice in educational research. It is needless to say that that is not the question of “to rejoice or to recoil” faced by educational researchers. It is simply one of the debates intending to advance research in educational setting.

Teachers And Educational Research

Exploring teachers' attitudes toward educational research as a tool for their professional learning is an important concern for researchers having teacher both as the object and the subject of their research because teachers are (among) the most important practitioners of educational theories and/or knowledge base developed by researchers. Most of the research aim to investigate whether teachers, as practitioners, endeavour to access research findings, think about its practical implications and mind educational research which, for Zajano & Edelsberg, “may be carried out in schools by 'outsiders' who are unknown to the … people …, and who may treat schools simply as data collection sites (Burka & Jones 1999 27-48).

According to Jones (2007 26), “academics write about the importance of research for understanding and improving classroom practices; classroom teachers dismiss the academics' research knowledge as a poor substitute for actual experience”. Citing various authors, Sprinthall & Sprinthall (2001 225-367), from a different point of view, suggests that teachers do not have to be technicians, consumers, receivers, transmitters, and implementers of university-based researchers' knowledge, but instead, can be generators of [scientific] knowledge (the word in italic added).

Another considerable view is bringing the voice of teachers into educational research through teachers' participation in research and links between teachers and researchers. This is the invitation for teachers to join the academic process of educational research to improve teaching. Ginott (1999 145) calls, for example, for collaboration between school-based colleagues and university-based colleagues who could bring craft knowledge [practical knowledge] and research knowledge [academic knowledge] to the [knowledge base] table of educational research (the words in italic added). Teachers' participation in research has some advantages.

Rademacher & Callahan (2008 548-663), for example, explored that 91% of the participating science teachers did not benefit from educational research. Elliott (2008 58), in a study with 265 teachers, revealed that “teachers ...