Challenges and opportunities for R&D as an integrated part of the new Teacher Education Program at the University of Tromsø

Abstract

The University of Tromsø started in the fall of 2010 a project called ‘University Schools.’ The project’s aim is to strengthen the praxis field in the teacher education programs. This involves a clearer focus on research and development, R&D, as a collaborative tool between the theoretical and the praxis field. My Ph.D. project is based on one of the Teacher Education Program’s goals which states that R&D, through all levels of the education, is going to be the tool to stronger connect the ties between theory and praxis and that again will help students to develop a stronger professional identity (Pilot I Nord).