Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>This article examines some of the complex, transformative features of student teachers\u2019 learning as they grapple with key critical multicultural and Development Education (DE) concepts.\u00a0 Through a series of scaffolded workshops – designed to support research with a strong social and cultural inclusion purpose \u2013 the article investigates how six post-primary student teachers initially experience new critical research practices and identities.\u00a0 The article begins with a brief description of Ireland\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 multicultural context and details the overarching theoretical perspective of this study.\u00a0 It outlines some key insights and challenges from extant research studies in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in Ireland and briefly details the research methodology employed in this small-scale research project.\u00a0 Drawing on student teachers\u2019 workshop debates, informal and focus group conversations, Professional Research Papers (PRPs) and later online survey comments, we analyse key moments in their \u2018becoming\u2019 critical researchers\u00a0of and for our times<\/em>.\u00a0 We conclude that this journey significantly matters for both the student teacher and her\/his young learners; but that it remains a journey \u2013 one still in the making and far from certain.\u00a0 The foundational work of \u2018overcoming\u2019 challenges for critical research in ITE is likewise shown to be far from certain.\u00a0 Yet we hope to demonstrate how critical research conducted on the critical work of student teachers can cultivate more understanding of, and improvements in, the nature of teacher education provision.<\/div>\n
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The following article, published in Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, is based on research carried out as part of the Id Est Project. O’Brien, S and Cotter, G (2018) ‘Critical Researchers \u2018Of and For Our Times\u2019: Exploring Student Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idestucc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}