Teacher-Researcher Collaborations as Contexts for Learning

Collaborative design in which both teachers and researchers participate can be a powerful context for capacity- and knowledge-building. However, typically the focus is on what and how teachers learn in co-design efforts. As important is how researchers learn through co-design with teachers. Co-design is an expansive learning context because it juxtaposes goals, purposes, and outcomes of multiple participants and communities. Emergent tensions expand opportunities for learning of all participants and communities. The chapters in this volume exemplify a range of co-design contexts and thereby illuminate different expansive learning contexts for teachers and researchers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cognition and Instruction.

The three co-editors, Susan R Goldman, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver and Eleni A. Kyza, are professors of learning sciences at their respective institutions and have served in leadership positions in the International Society of the Learning Sciences. The research programs of each co-editor focus on enhancing instruction through work with teachers and their students to maximize technological innovation and instructional improvement.