TEACHERS BECOMING ACTION RESEARCHERS: TOWARDS A MODEL OF INDUCTION

Towards the end of 2006, a group of secondary and primary teachers, in collaboration withuniversity researchers based at the University of Waikato, began a two-year journey where they researchedtheir own practice as teachers of literature in multicultural classrooms in Auckland, New Zealand.This presentation briefly outlines the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI), whichinitially provided a vision of teachers, working in partnership with university researchers, researchingtheir own practice with the aim of enhancing the practice of the teaching profession as a whole. Throughthe eyes of one of the university-based researchers, but drawing on the experiences of four of the teacherparticipants, this presentation reflects on factors that had a bearing on the successful (or otherwise) inductionof these teachers as teacher-researchers in their own right.