1. Researching teacher development in ICT:  can the vygotskian experimental-genetic methodology do the trick?
Lada Smirnova, June 2015

2. fessional Development
Epigraph
fessional Development
Движенья нет, сказал мудрец брадатый. Другой смолчал и стал пред ним ходить. А.С. Пушкин (1825)
One bearded sage concluded: there's no motion.  Without a word, another walked before him.
Alexander Pushkin (1825)
(Translation by Andrey Kneller)

3. Outline Researching Development – aiming at a moving target
Experimental-genetic methodology
3 principles of Vygotsky’s approach
Engeström’s Change Laboratory cycle
5 principles of research methodology
Challenges to consider

4. Staff development lies at the heart of nearly every educational effort to improve student achievement
(Supovitz &. Turner, 2000:963)
Teachers have ‘responsibility to develop professionally throughout their careers’
(Johnson, 2006:250)
Teacher Development is ‘fundamentally a bottom-up, … self-initiated, self-monitored development of skills, knowledge and attitudes’
(Eldridge, 2005:6)

5. What is Exploratory Practice?

6. Similar phases of development
The Research Study ?

7. Two paths of development≠
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8. Intervention (latin) Inter- between venio - to come ‘to come between’
Definitions
Intervention (latin) Inter- between venio - to come ‘to come between’
Formative intervention methods
Genetic-modeling experiment (Vygotsky; Davydov; Zuckerman, 2012)
French clinic of activity (Clot, 2009; Clot & Kostulski, 2011)
American Fifth Dimension (Cole, 2006)
Change Laboratory (Engeström,1996, 2014); Virkkunen & Newnham, 2013).

9. Change Laboratory
Engeström’s cycle
Virkkunen et al (2013:17)

10. 5 principles of methodology
1. Buds of development
2. Dramatic event
3. Interaction of real (natural) and ideal
(cultural) forms
4. Developmental tools (web 2.0 in my case)
5. Sustainable qualitative changes as an outcome
of the experiment.
(Veresov, 2010:88-89)

11. 1. Extra burden on teachers 2. Need emotional involvement
Expected challenges
1. Extra burden on teachers
2. Need emotional involvement
and professional commitment
of each and every

12. Any questions?
Comments?
Suggestions?

13. References References
Clot, Y. (2009). Clinic of activity: The dialogue as instrument. In A. Sannino, H. Daniels, & K. Gutierrez (Eds.), Learning and expanding with activity theory (pp. 286–302). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Clot, Y., & Kostulski, K. (2011). Intervening for transforming: The horizon of action in the Clinic of Activity. Theory and Psychology, 21:681–696.
Cole, M., & The Distributed Literacy Consortium. (Eds.). (2006). The Fifth Dimension: An after-school program built on diversity. New York, NY: Russell Sage.

Davydov, V. V. (1990). Types of generalization in instruction: Logical and psychological problems in the structuring of school curricula. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Davydov, V. V. (2008). Problems of developmental instruction: A theoretical and experimental psychological study. New York, NY: Nova.
Eldridge, J. (2005). Rendering unto Caesar: the ambivalent case of in-service teacher training. TD SIG Newsletter 1/05: 6-10
Engeström, Y. (1996). Developmental work research as educational research. Nordisk pedagogik 16/3:131–143.
Engeström, Y. (2007). Putting Vygotsky to work: The Change Laboratory as an application of double stimulation. In H. Daniels, M. Cole, & J. V. Wertsch (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky (pp. 363–382). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Engeström, Y., Sannino, A., & Virkkunen, J. (2014). On the methodological demands of formative interventions. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 21/2:

14. References
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