Teacher Research Literacy Development : A Toolkit for Teachers and Teacher Educators (häftad, eng)

This handbook brings together contributions from teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders across five Nordic and Baltic countries — Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia — to examine how research literacy is developed in teacher education and practised in upper-secondary school classrooms. It represents the culmination of the two-year Teacher Research Literacy: Comparative Trajectories in the Nordic-Baltic Region (TREL) project, funded by the Nordplus Horizontal programme.
The volume is organised in three parts. The first presents case studies from universities in the participating countries, documenting how research literacy is embedded in pre-service teacher education programmes and how student teachers are supported in moving from research consumers to reflective research practitioners. The second part gives voice to in-service teachers at Norwegian upper-secondary schools who, in partnership with university colleagues, designed and carried out classroom-based action research projects while continuing to teach full-time. These chapters are written in the teachers' own voices and reflect the realities, uncertainties, and professional development that come with integrating research into everyday teaching practice. The third part offers perspectives from school leaders on how to cultivate and sustain teacher research literacy at the institutional level.
Taken together, the chapters address two fundamental questions: why teachers need to become research literate, and how teacher education programmes can be designed to support that process. The handbook is intended as a resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher educators, school leaders, and policymakers with an interest in evidence-based teaching and research-informed professional development.
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"This impressive publication is the outcome of a cross-country collaboration in the Nordic-Baltic Region among teachers, administrators, and academic researchers to strengthen the research literacy of teachers. Anyone interested in understanding and fostering practitioner pedagogical research and learning about effective evidence-based classroom practices will gain deep and important insights from this invaluable handbook. The TREL Project Team is to be congratulated on this outstanding initiative."

Anne Burns
Professor Emerita, Aston University
"An internationally invaluable publication; it adds a wide range of Nordic case studies to the international literature on linking teaching and research. But perhaps more fundamentally - in the wider conceptual theme of “research literacy” - it develops our scholarly and practical understanding of how this can be developed in a wide range of contexts from school to higher education, with interventions from individual teachers to institutional policies and drawing on the international research literature on teaching research relations."

Alan Jenkins
Professor Emeritus, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Format	Häftad
Omfång	230 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Malmö universitet
Utgivningsdatum	2026-06-01
Medverkande	Anna Wärnsby
Medverkande	Raees Calafato
Medverkande	Shaun Nolan
Medverkande	Asli Lidice Gökturk-Saglam
ISBN	9789178777877