A living educational theory approach to professional learning and educational research: evidence-based explanations for educational influences in learning

Whitehead, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9644-0785 and Huxtable, Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1808-0670 (2024) A living educational theory approach to professional learning and educational research: evidence-based explanations for educational influences in learning. In: BERA Conference 2024 (British Educational Research Association), 8-12 September 2024, University of Manchester, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

On this 50th anniversary of the foundation of BERA in 1974 we are questioning the dominant units of appraisal, standards of judgement and logics used to define the nature of educational research. We offer alternative units, standards and logics for defining educational research. These have emerged from a Living Educational Theory approach to professional learning and educational research in evidence-based explanations of educational influences in learning. Our alternative rests on a distinction between education research and educational research. We understand education research to be constituted by research carried out within, or making original contributions to, the conceptual frameworks and methods of validation of the disciplines and fields of education such as the philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, economics, politics, leadership and administration of education. We understand educational research to be research that generates valid, evidence-based and values-laden explanations for educational influences in the researcher’s learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations within which the research is located. Our alternative is grounded in an understanding of professionalism that includes the professional responsibility to research questions of the kind, ‘How do I enhance the educational influences of my professional practice, with values of human flourishing?’

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Departments:	Institute of Education > Non-Initial Teacher Education
Additional Information:	Dr Jack Whitehead, Visiting Professor, University of Cumbria, UK. Dr Marie Huxtable, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cumbria, UK.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2024 09:17
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2024 09:30
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8422

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