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Leading Professional Change Through Research(ING)

Conceptual Tools for Professional Practice and Research

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Transformative Doctoral Research Practices for Professionals

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching ((CIFL))

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Asking unusual and interesting questions and making original connections that make us (adults) notice new things about our world is typically considered a sign of intelligent thinking in children. As we become encultured into various expert practices and communities, it becomes increasingly difficult to ask such questions and escape our taken-for-granted assumptions and habits. When I ask professional graduate students to think of an example of something that made them gain a genuinely novel perspective on their practice, they often struggle.

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  2. University of Cambridge, UK

    Tatjana Dragovic

  3. University of Cambridge, UK

    Julia Flutter

  4. University of Cambridge, UK

    Julie Alderton

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Hofmann, R. (2016). Leading Professional Change Through Research(ING). In: Burnard, P., Dragovic, T., Flutter, J., Alderton, J. (eds) Transformative Doctoral Research Practices for Professionals. Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-630-9_11

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