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Teachers To Become Researchers Of Hermeneutics To Understand

Posted on:2005-10-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Q GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360122493498Subject:Comparative Education
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Teacher as Researcher is an important movement of international teacher education reformation. It has not only something important to teachers, but also is a crucial route to improve and change educational practice in the classroom. But now there are still some agreements about Teacher as Researcher. How to understand Teacher as Researcher and its meaning to education change? Hermeneutics turning to ontology and practical philosophy can answer this question.Hermeneutics turning to ontology focuses on "being", locality, situation, and experience by oneself. Education is an activity taking place between teachers and students, Teachers lie in Educational lifeworld and experience various situations and feel what happens in teaching process. So Teachers know what are the problems in teaching, teachers are in the best positions for research.Hermeneutics turning to practical philosophy focuses on phronesis and achievement of meaning. Education is the practical process to achieve educational meaning in essence, Teachers are Educational practitioners. Teachers are different from others in Teaching between teachers and students, Teachers have opportunities for research not replaced by others.As Times changes, Today Education and Teachers face with new challenges they have never met with before. Education is not knowledge transmission or instillation, Teachers are not knowledge givers or providers, Education is wisdom enlightment and heart construction, Teachers are wisdom developers and heart directors. Times needs to re-understand teachers' roles, Researchers are new roles of teachers that Times requires...
Keywords/Search Tags:Teacher as Researcher, Hermeneutics, Ontology practical philosophy
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