Broadening the understanding of transfer in the context of teacher training in higher education.

Employees are often unable to apply (or continue to apply) what they learn during a professional training course in their job. This also happens in teacher training in higher education: what teachers learn during their training is often not implemented in their classroom practice. This project sets out to broaden our understanding of these transfer problematics. Data from student evaluations at the University of Antwerp in the period 2000-2012 will be analyzed for teachers who took part in the one-year training course for novice teachers. On the basis of the results of the analysis 45 teachers will be selected for a semi-structured interview. The research design makes it possible to obtain a greater understanding of the transfer problematics in teacher training in higher education by means of both quantitative research methods (via longitudinal analysis of student evaluations) and qualitative research methods (via semi-structured interviews). The results of the project will provide an answer to the following questions: 1) to what extent is a long-term transfer produced; and 2) what are the underlying reasons why this does or does not occur?

Keywords:HIGHER EDUCATION, TRANSFER, TEACHER TRAINING

Disciplines:Education curriculum, Education systems, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Instructional sciences, Specialist studies in education, Other pedagogical and educational sciences