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SIG: Teaching and Teacher Education Research (TATER)

Bobby Harreveld
A/Professor Bobby Harreveld

Convenor

Purpose

The Teaching and Teacher Education Research (TATER) SIG is concerned with questions around the art and craft of teaching in cross-sectoral context of higher education, vocational education and training, adult and community education, early childhood settings and schools (primary and secondary). As a consequence of this research focus, the TATER SIG members are also concerned with issues of teacher education in these varied contexts. Theoretically and methodologically, TATER is not constrained to specific paradigmatic views of what counts as knowledge and how that is to be determined. At this point in time, those members who are active contributing to debates, oral presentations and writing outputs in this field generally use an interpretive, constructivist orientation to their research with qualitative and/or mixed methods approaches to data collection and analysis.

Strategic Deliverables

TATER's mission is aligned with CQUniversity's strategic research directions in terms of learning and teaching excellence. It provides a forum for facilitating debate and fostering high quality research on the theory and practice of teaching and the implications of this for teacher education in universities, colleges, schools, industry and community settings.

Members

TATER currently has 46 Members (Last updated March 2011)

Additional Detail

The TATER SIG is concerned with and reports against the following Field of Research (see http://www.abs.gov.au):

  • Group 1301 Education Systems [systems for the delivery of education services among 9 fields]
  • Group 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy [including curriculum theory and pedagogical development for teaching among 14 fields]
  • Group 1303 Special Studies in Education [that include, but are not limited to teaching technologies, teacher education and professional development of educators]
  • In terms of the Australian government's socio-economic objectives (SEO) our research at this time is focused on: 9302 Teaching and Instruction; 9303 Curriculum; 9304 School and Institution; and 9305 Education and Training Systems.