This purpose of this article is to explore challenges and tensions associated with a participatory action research (PAR) project that occurred in 2019 and involved the author and five teacher activist co-researchers. This article opens with some brief context on the PAR project under focus before specifying the article's analytical methods. Next,…

Research and practitioners are both at fault for failing to understand and communicate with each other. The result has been mutual animosity and a failure of research to bolster educational practice in the way it should. (Author/DS)

The ideological positions that developed in a teacher research group were analyzed. The conflicts and interchanges among participants revealed important divisions within the teacher research movement that generate needed discussions of pedagogical practice. (SLD)

Uses a sociological perspective to examine the factors that produce conflict between researchers and practitioners in art education. The factors have resulted from the ways that the disciplines and professions are organized. They produce conflict about research and practice components and conflict about professional education. (AM)

Promoting local development in order to support school improvement is an important aspect of contemporary educational policy in Sweden. Recent state initiatives have sought to combine curriculum and teacher development. A common form of cooperation is facilitation, where academics support groups of teachers in their school projects. This article…