This new AILA Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research Network Symposium explores critical perspectives raised by co-production in research and pedagogy. Traditionally research has 'belonged' to researchers, while teaching/learning has 'belonged' to practitioners. This creates a cultural communication gap which has long been contested. We highlight the challenges of different contextual constraints, probe assumptions of agency, voice and ownership, and foreground issues of local/global knowledge raised when practitioners engage in theorising praxis. This approach deliberately crosses boundaries, asking WHO does WHAT in classrooms and research. Making practitioner research fully inclusive means empowering those whose contributions are traditionally overlooked: learners, teachers, teacher educators, administrators, to co-produce knowledge, share insights, develop understandings of research in applied linguistics. New epistemologies are generated as hierarchies are interrogated and the cultures of research and pedagogy are explored. In this interactive Symposium we bring together researchers, practitioner researchers, teachers, learners and scholars involved in fully inclusive practitioner research from different geographical, institutional, cultural areas. A rich variety of speakers (both experienced and 'new scholars') from around the world will give creative, multimodal presentations of their work. We invite discussions in a new approach to co-production of knowledge about learning, teaching, researching in applied linguistics.
Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nlThis new AILA Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research Network Symposium explores critical perspectives raised by co-production in research and pedagogy. Traditionally research has 'belonged' to researchers, while teaching/learning has 'belonged' to practitioners. This creates a cultural communication gap which has long been contested. We highlight the challenges of different contextual constraints, probe assumptions of agency, voice and ownership, and foreground issues of local/global knowledge raised when practitioners engage in theorising praxis. This approach deliberately crosses boundaries, asking WHO does WHAT in classrooms and research. Making practitioner research fully inclusive means empowering those whose contributions are traditionally overlooked: learners, teachers, teacher educators, administrators, to co-produce knowledge, share insights, develop understandings of research in applied linguistics. New epistemologies are generated as hierarchies are interrogated and the cultures of research and pedagogy are explored. In this interactive Symposium we bring together researchers, practitioner researchers, teachers, learners and scholars involved in fully inclusive practitioner research from different geographical, institutional, cultural areas. A rich variety of speakers (both experienced and 'new scholars') from around the world will give creative, multimodal presentations of their work. We invite discussions in a new approach to co-production of knowledge about learning, teaching, researching in applied linguistics.
Emily Edwards
Tim Ashwell
Andy Barfield
Alison Stewart
Sian Etherington
Judith Hanks
Johanna Vaattovaara
Tim Ashwell
Alison Stewart
Andy Barfield
Yoshitaka Kato
Sal Consoli
