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Practical steps for using interdisciplinary educational research to enhance cultural awareness

International audienceThis article adds to the dialogue on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, providing definitions and practical steps for using interdisciplinary educational research to enhance cultural awareness. Informed by a research study conducted by seven primary researchers situated in the U.K. and Kazakhstan, along with local partners, we sought to combine our varied disciplinary knowledge to examine the socio- educational topic of students’ well-being in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Through integrating disciplinary perspectives in particular from psychology, anthropology and sociology into educational research for a longitudinal study (2015–2017), we found enhanced cultural awareness relating to an expanded level of trust and strengthened socio-linguistic translations. The article provides practical steps with key examples from the study to demonstrate our process of utilizing interdisciplinary educational research. Findings suggest the challenges and potential of utilizing these practical steps for facilitating the move from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary educational research to enhance cultural awareness

Profissionalismo, gerencialismo e performatividade Professionalism, managerialism and performativity

O texto analisa a cultura de gestão e do desempenho como duas das principais tecnologias da reforma educacional que envolve a utilização calculada de técnicas e artefatos para organizar forças humanas e capacidades em redes de poder, as quais terminam por sonegar o espaço à constituição da identidade profissional dos professores como prática ético-cultural.<br>This paper analyzes managerialism and the culture of achievement as two of the main technologies in the educational reform that involve the planned use of techniques and artefacts to organize human forces and capacities into networks of power, which end up denying room for the constitution of teachers' identity as an ethic and cultural practice

What rough beast? Conceptualising the poetry teacher in Ireland through the eyes of the pupil,

Pupils have a significant contribution to make in the construction of knowledge about teaching and learning in schools. Therefore, consultation with pupils should play a significant role in the pursuit of pedagogical advancement. This study explores pupils’ conceptions of effective poetry teachers at Leaving Certificate level in Ireland. Taking a phenomenographic approach, this study draws on interviews conducted with 23 senior cycle pupils. Set against a transcontextual backdrop of pupil apathy and disengagement in the poetry classroom, this study identifies five significant categories of learning for pre-service teachers aiming to optimise student engagement within the poetry classroom. The imperative for action, specifically at pre-service level, is outlined and recommendations in the pursuit of pedagogical advancement in the poetry classroom are proposed