Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research in Applied Linguistics

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The aim of this Research Network is to bring together researchers, practitioner researchers, practitioners and scholars who are involved in forms of fully inclusive practitioner research (Allwright & Hanks, 2009) in different geographical/institutional/cultural areas, in order to theorize praxis, share innovations, challenge established orders, and to create new opportunities for communication and collaboration.

As a network, we wish to explore the opportunities for collaboration between learners, teachers, administrators/school managers/teacher educators, and researchers. We challenge traditionally accepted roles and playfully question established identities. Our main aims include:

To identify research projects already under way in the various member countries and strengthen international links between groups working in similar topic areas
To track the impact that inclusive practitioner research is having in/across applied linguistics and educational cultures
To seek out new opportunities for collaborative, relevant, and inclusive practitioner research in applied linguistics and language education
To identify the epistemological challenges that practitioner researchers face in applied linguistics, and to explore the innovations they offer for the field
To develop the potential for multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural, inclusive practitioner research
To continue theory development of fully inclusive practitioner research, especially but not exclusively, Exploratory Practice and Action Research
To share methodologies and ideas, and promote creative ways of disseminating fully inclusive practitioner research that supports teachers, teacher educators, managers/administrators, and learners
To promote the good research and scholarship that has already been done, and, building on that, to develop new areas of interest, new research, new projects