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Tensions in collaborative research with teachers in the context of language education policy change in Finland (2023)

Mård-Miettinen, K., & Pitkänen-Huhta, A. (2023). Tensions in collaborative research with teachers in the context of language education policy change in Finland. In G. Erickson, C. Bardel, & D. Little (Eds.), Collaborative Research in Language Education : Reciprocal Benefits and Challenges (pp. 165-178). De Gruyter. Trends in Applied Linguistics, 20. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787719-012

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Mård-Miettinen, Karita; Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne

Parent publication: Collaborative Research in Language Education : Reciprocal Benefits and Challenges

Parent publication editors: Erickson, Gudrun; Bardel, Camilla; Little, David

ISBN: 978-3-11-078753-5

eISBN: 978-3-11-078771-9

Journal or series: Trends in Applied Linguistics

ISSN: 1868-6362

Publication year: 2023

Publication date: 24/07/2023

Number in series: 20

Pages range: 165-178

Number of pages in the book: 217

Publisher: De Gruyter

Place of Publication: Berlin

Publication country: Germany

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787719-012

Publication open access: Not open

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/92617

Abstract

Schools in Finland faced a major policy change in language education at the beginning of 2020, when the age to start learning the first foreign or second domestic language was lowered from third to first grade in primary school. With the aim of examining how practices are formed in this new situation, we planned a case study with one school. The outbreak of Covid-19 forced us to change our original plans in order to maintain contact with the school, and our perspective on the emerging new practices was broadened by including the language teachers’ collegial network in online interviews. In this chapter, we analyse these interview data. By paying specific attention to the researcher-practitioner collaboration as it was realized in the interviews, we identified different strategies that the teachers and researchers used in points where tensions in the interviews seemed to arise.

Keywords: language teaching; second language; foreign languages; teachers; research; researchers; cooperation (general); language policy; education policy; interviews

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Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2023

JUFO rating: 3