Exploratory Practice: An Alternative Tool for Understanding Life in the Language Classroom
Title
Exploratory Practice: An Alternative Tool for Understanding Life in the Language Classroom
Exploratory Practice: An Alternative Tool for Understanding Life in the Language Classroom
Author
Subhi Ashour
University of Exeter
Subhi Ashour
University of Exeter
Abstract
In this study, I begin with a reflection on my experience of the pre-service research component of the Initial Teaching Training [ITT] programme at the Higher Language Institute [HLI], Damascus University. I back up my opinions and views of that component with my fellow colleagues through a questionnaire I analysed in a previous paper (Ashour, 2008a). Following that I shall address the issue of the relevance of classroom-research for teachers in my institution and some practical issues related to the impediments of classroom-research there. Armed by my experience in the MEd programme, I shall propose Exploratory Practice [EP] as an approach to research in the HLI classroom. I shall discuss the principles and characteristics of EP in the light of other approaches. Finally I shall flesh out the skeleton of my argument with some examples of research projects informed by EP principles adding to that my own intended work with EP at the HLI.
In this study, I begin with a reflection on my experience of the pre-service research component of the Initial Teaching Training [ITT] programme at the Higher Language Institute [HLI], Damascus University. I back up my opinions and views of that component with my fellow colleagues through a questionnaire I analysed in a previous paper (Ashour, 2008a). Following that I shall address the issue of the relevance of classroom-research for teachers in my institution and some practical issues related to the impediments of classroom-research there. Armed by my experience in the MEd programme, I shall propose Exploratory Practice [EP] as an approach to research in the HLI classroom. I shall discuss the principles and characteristics of EP in the light of other approaches. Finally I shall flesh out the skeleton of my argument with some examples of research projects informed by EP principles adding to that my own intended work with EP at the HLI.
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