TEPE 2012 - 6th TEPE Conference on Research, Policy, and Practice in Teacher Education in Europe

The theme of the 6th TEPE Conference “Research, Policy, and Practice in Teacher
Education in Europe” examines how we can narrow the gap between research, policy
and practice in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning at all levels of
education. A particular focus of the conference will be an analysis of how teachers
actually learn and improve their practice.
Narrowing the gap between research, policy and practice demands that we rethink our
research priorities and practices, as well as the ways in which we develop and
implement policy. There is a pressing need to develop a pragmatic approach to
dissemination based on what we know about how teachers actually do learn and
improve their practice. The conference will focus on the barriers to teacher education
improvement and identify the proven change levers which facilitate improvement
One of the aims of the conference is to support a culture of quality improvement in
teacher education and professional development through promoting an interactive
research partnership between universities, schools, centres for non-formal learning,
mediators and policy makers, which can be a basis for knowledge creation and sharing.
Central to this aim is the examination of how to promote collaboration and knowledge
sharing between educational researchers, policy makers and practitioners across
Europe and beyond.
The conference organizers would welcome papers which examine:
- the role of intermediaries in strengthening connections between research,
practice and policy in teacher education;
- the development of quality cultures in teacher education including
recommendations for practice;
- Learning by comparing i.e. cross-national comparisons;
- Teacher education and responses to intensification of cross-national testing (e.g.
PISA, TIMSS-R… etc);
Conference participants:
- academics, practitioners and policy makers.
Dates: 17-19 May 2012
Place: Warsaw, Poland
For further information, please visit the conference website
http://www.tepe2012.uni.lodz.p