The concept of Teaching-Research Nexus (TRN) is one of the main
characteristics of the academic orientation. The current study
attempts to examine how this perception is implemented in
Israeli Academic Colleges of Education (ACEs) and how it is
expressed in the work of senior teacher educators who have
previously served as teachers in schools. An analysis of nine semistructured
interviews pointed to teacher students’ and teacher
educators’ agency as being prominent patterns in the TRN implementa…
Read moreThe concept of Teaching-Research Nexus (TRN) is one of the main
characteristics of the academic orientation. The current study
attempts to examine how this perception is implemented in
Israeli Academic Colleges of Education (ACEs) and how it is
expressed in the work of senior teacher educators who have
previously served as teachers in schools. An analysis of nine semistructured
interviews pointed to teacher students’ and teacher
educators’ agency as being prominent patterns in the TRN implementation,
and which are expressed in three ways: (a) agency of
research insights to the educational field; (b) agency of reflective
practitioning (an ability of the individual to create a relationship
between his or her social and emotional world in the professional
context); and (c) agency of cross-cultural research. The discussion
delineates the similarities and differences between the perception
of TRN among teacher educators in ACEs and academics in other
institutions of higher education.