A Doctor teaching in a school: expectations, opportunities and constraints related to the linking between research and practice

• Autor(a) principal: Espinha, Ângela
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Lécio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v8i5.2443

This study intends to know the perceptions of teachers with a PhD in Education about (i) the expectations that lead teachers to do research on Education and (ii) the opportunities and constraints related to the linking between research and practice. This study is expected to contribute to a better understanding of the epistemology of Didática and of its operationalization in the educational context. Semi-structured interviews were made to 4 Doctors in Education who teach or taught in a school after finishing their PhD. The results point the professional development and the motivation to innovate and intervene in the educational context as the two main expectations of the respondents. As far as the impact of research in the practices, they acknowledge an improvement in their own practices and they believe that their research projects favoured the conditions for change in their peers and in the schools where they work or worked.