TEACHer Project
Practitioner research is a powerful tool for investigating practice and tailoring pedagogy for the benefit of learners. However, teacher-researchers face unique challenges when undertaking research in the classroom, and maintaining ethical standards is vital. Unfortunately, despite widespread support for teachers to engage with and in research, there are limited opportunities for them to enhance their education research ethics competence either through funded CPD, or through collaboration with professional bodies who give ethics advice.
TEACHer is an 18-month research project aimed at developing innovative digital resources that can be used by teacher-researchers who are not affiliated with any university and thus have limited or no ethics oversight for their classroom-based research. The project team will work with teachers to generate resources to enable teacher-researchers to assess their own skills, knowledge & needs with regards to education research ethics; to build the capacity of teachers to engage in classroom-based research in ways that are ethically sound in the absence of ethical oversight; and the resources produced will be informed by the real-world unique ethical dilemmas facing teachers-as-researchers.
The project is being led by Dr Brennan at MIE, in collaboration with a consortium of partners including, Dr Cliodhna Martin, Dr John Carroll and Ms Leah Elsted at MIE; Dr Carla Quesada-Pallarès, Dr Allan-Baez Contreras, Dr Anna Ciraso-Calí, Dr Georgeta Ion and Angelina Sánchez-Martí from Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Spain; and a team led by Darren Byrne at St Joseph’s Post-Primary School in Dublin.
For more information about the project, contact [email protected]