Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Abstract
A repositioning of research within teacher education is vital to the profession. Supporting teachers becoming active agents and producers of research within their school settings, is pivotal to their professional development and the development of the teaching profession. In this chapter we present how the European Union-funded project, Building a Research Infrastructure for School Teachers (BRIST), progressed through the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter presents a retrospective of the teaching and teacher education in fulfilling the project objectives which was designed to develop technology to coordinate and support teacher-research at a European level. The principled participatory design collaborative project, across five national jurisdictions, engaged with teachers and teacher education stakeholders in developing a mobile application to support teacher research. The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic are captured, along with the innovative approaches in overcoming these roadblocks to progress the research
