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Teachers’ collaborative professional development for inclusive education

“…The main part of the studies focused collaboration between teachers, but four of the studies were based on a collaboration between researchers and teachers based on the teachers' perspectives (Paul, Duchnowski, and Danforth 1993;Nevárez-La Torre and Sanford-De Shields 1999;Greenwood et al 2003;Rinaldi, Averill, and Stuart 2011). Thus, a research gap is hereby identified as studies to identify and changes practice from the perspective of teachers are rare.…”

“…Main part of the studies have a design were the collaboration focused is between teachers, but in four studies the researchers and teachers were working together with the teachers (Paul, Duchnowski, and Danforth 1993;Nevárez-La Torre and Sanford-De Shields 1999;Greenwood et al 2003;Rinaldi, Averill, and Stuart 2011). In one of these four studies, the teachers were also introduced as co-leaders for the research project, which resulted in a strong sustainability (Rinaldi, Averill, and Stuart 2011).…”

“…Six of the studies (Chan and Lo 2017;Kempen and Steyn 2016;Brownell et al 2006;Leko et al 2015;Simpson et al 2016;Rinaldi, Averill, and Stuart 2011) are small-scale studies, while the rest are large-scale studies. Six studies only implicitly describe how many participants were included because the cases include one or more schools or programmes (Kempen and Steyn 2016;Juma, Lehtomäki, and Naukkarinen 2017;Carrington, Deppeler, and Moss 2010;Wesson, Voltz, and Ridley 1994;Paul, Duchnowski, and Danforth 1993;Nevárez-La Torre and Sanford-De Shields 1999).…”

“…The studies' focuses are mainly on general issues, such as inclusive education, or more specific topics, such as theory of mind, literacy or technology. Four studies reported findings on a design where the teachers and researchers collaboratively designed and implemented the research in the classroom (Paul, Duchnowski, and Danforth 1993;Nevárez-La Torre and Sanford-De Shields 1999;Greenwood et al 2003;Rinaldi, Averill, and Stuart 2011). The researchers who worked collaboratively with teachers to define the focus of their research and implementation identified new perspectives on what questions could be defined.…”