Project
Title: What
is it like
to be a Chartered
Teacher doing
action research?
Supervisor:
Professor Morwenna Griffiths
Research
topic:
The aim
of the research is to understand Chartered Teachers'
lived experience of engaging in post-award, non-funded
action research. The research will explore Chartered
Teachers' beliefs, assumptions, values and experiences
etc. of engaging in action research and examine
their dynamic, unique and complex contexts. For
an in-depth and rich view of what it is like for
a Chartered Teacher to engage in action research
I will explore teachers' previous and current experiences
of doing action research, looking at the nature,
purpose and process involved.
Professional experience:
The
first five years of my career in education were
spent as a primary teacher, working in Fife, Scotland.
After teaching for two years in an elementary school
in North Carolina, USA, I returned to Scotland
to continue teaching and study for an MSc in Education.
I have been a lecturer at Moray House since 2004,
teaching primarily on BEd
Primary, PGDE
Primary and MTeach (Chartered Teacher) programmes. My
teaching focuses mainly on the use of technology
(ICT) in education and teachers' professional development.
Publications:
Selected
Publications
Chapters in Books:
Malcolm, H., Griffiths, M. and Williamson, Z., 2009 Faces and Spaces and Doing
Research in Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice, Ed. Tidwell, D,
L., Heston, M, L. and Fitzgerald, L, M., Springer.
Journal Articles:
Williamson, Z. and Robinson,
G., 2009 "Challenge" "Freedom" "Change": An emerging
language of activism from Chartered Teachers? Professional
Development in Education, Vol. 35, pp. 43-62.
Bayne, S., Ross, J. and Williamson, Z., 2009 Objects, subjects, bits and bytes:
learning from the digital collections of the National Museums Museum and Society.
Ross, J., Bayne, S. and
Williamson, Z., 2008 Reach, Relevance, Relationship and
Recontextualisation: The 4 Rs of Inclusive Online Museum
Learning The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum,
Vol. 1(1), pp. 67-74.
Published conference papers:
Griffiths, M., Malcolm, H., Douglas, R., Williamson, Z. and Gizzi, A., 2008 Selves
and Spaces and Doing Research Pathways to Change in Teacher Education:The 7th
International Conference on Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices. Dialogue,
Diversity and Self-Study, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, August 2008.
Further
Information:
 More
information on Zoè's own website
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