Teachers Research! Online 2023 conference
Friday March 17th – Saturday March 18th, 2023
This international online conference brought together teacher-researchers from a range of contexts: Argentina, Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Cote d’Ivoire, India, Iraq, Israel, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Turkey. They were guided by 24 mentors in total. , supporting the growing international movement of teachers as researchers and knowledge creators for themselves, their students and their schools. As with previous Teachers Research! conferences in Argentina, Chile, Turkey and (in 2021) online, this online conference was participant-centred, with teachers being viewed as at the centre of knowledge construction rather than the ‘receivers’ of expert knowledge. The innovative format of the conference promoted interaction among presenters and participants by allowing ample discussion time after brief poster presentations. In this way, teachers and participants were encouraged to communicate their ideas, and to get and give feedback freely.
In total, there were 74 separate presentations by teachers and student-teachers from 12 countries, The conference also featured plenary sessions which placed groups of teachers and mentors at centre-stage, encouraging overall reflection on the processes of teacher-research and teacher-research mentoring.
We are again very grateful to the A.S. Hornby Educational Trust Decentring ELT initiative, which enabled us to keep the conference free for IATEFL members and non-members alike and to Zening Yang for all her help with the organization.
Asli Saglam, conference co-chair