TAP to TAP2: Research report 2017
Author Identifier (ORCID)
Julia Morris: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4481-8050
Abstract
The University of Melbourne initiated ‘teacher as art maker project’ continues to grow and develop its body of knowledge through an expansion of its participant groups that now includes Science Education graduates, and the asset of a growing team of researchers who are bringing a sophisticated praxis-focus to the project. This research report signals the beginning of a more holistic approach to TAP; while it remains focused on statistical analyses, it lays the foundation for an exciting mixed-method approach in future years. This paper reports year seven data, analysed against longitudinal trends existing in the established TAP data set. As in previous years, the results continue to defy any clear-cut difference between the practitioners’ self-allocated ‘identities’, and also between the TAP and the Control groups. It does, however, suggest emerging trends regarding the resilience of the ‘teacher-as-practitioner’ group, and indications that the TAP exhibition group has greater incidence of retention in teaching, and higher perceptions of quality of teaching. This continues findings from previous years, it proves this phenomenon is a complex one that will most likely never give definitive ‘differences’ between the groups, and it suggests that quality understanding of the teacher as a practitioner will come from understandings established through quality mixed-method analyses.
Non-Traditional Research Output
Report for External Body
Document Type
Report
Date of Publication
2017
Research Statement
This exhibition increased the stock of knowledge in the area of pedagogy and practice, as it explored the times and places in which art and science teachers are able to continue their own practice. The unique perspectives of early career teachers were exhibited together for the first time, highlighting how the ebb and flow of practice changes over the course of the first 3 years of teaching. In addition, the work was innovative in that the works were simultaneously exhibited at Studio 5 Gallery in Melbourne, to engage in dialogue about the balance between pedagogy and practice in 2 differing Australian states.
Publication Title
Ebb & Flow: Research catalogue of the sixth annual Teacher As Practitioner
Publisher
University of Melbourne: Graduate School of Education
School
School of Education / Edith Cowan Institute for Education Research
RAS ID
25902
Additional Information
metadata only record
Comments
Morris, J., Imms, W., Toscano, M., & Coleman, K. (2017). TAP to TAP2: Research report 2017. In Imms, W., Coleman, K., Healy, S., & Toscano, M. (Eds). Ebb & Flow: Research catalogue of the sixth annual Teacher As Practitioner. University of Melbourne: Graduate School of Education.