Teachers of mother-tongue education in action: Teachers of mother-tongue education in action research setting

Abstract

In this paper we report on the first year of a two year action-research project in the Netherlands. Fourteen teachers of mother-tongue education worked together to design concept-contextenriched education. Three teachers of higher vocational education with knowledge of action research facilitated the project and an academic researcher from the university (first author of this paper) researched the implementation of this action-research project as the teachers were experiencing it. This paper reports on the knowledge the teachers developed, the materials they produced, and the mothertongue (or L1 concepts and contexts) they applied during the first ten months of the project. With this paper w..