“…Acknowledgingthebottom-upapproachadvocatedbyStenhouse,andwithitsrootsinthe morerecentliteratureaboutthelearningorganizationandprofessionallearningcommunities (Bolamet al,2005;Hargreaves,2007;Stollet al,2006:229;StollandSeashoreLouis,2007;Wenger, 1998),theself-improvingschoolisportrayedasaplacewhereteacherssetoutto'overcomethe shortcomingsassociatedwithepisodic,decontextualisedprofessionaldevelopmentconductedin isolationfrompractice' (Webster-Wright,2009,citedinWatson,2014.Theseshortcomings aresaidtobeovercomewhentheschoolisresearch-engaged (MacGilchrist,et al,1997;Sharpet al,2005;Wilkins,2011),oraplacewhereteacherslearnto'shareandcriticallyinterrogatetheir practiceinanon-going,relective,collaborative,inclusive,learning-orientated,growth-promoting way' (Bolamet al, 2005, citedinWatson,2014Colucci-Gray,et al,2013).Acknowledgingthis, thereportoftheBERA-RSAInquiryintotheRoleofResearchinTeacherEducationmakesthe casefor'thedevelopment,acrosstheUK,ofself-improvingeducationsystemsinwhichteachers areresearchliterateandhaveopportunitiesforengagementinresearchandenquiry' (BERA-RSA,2014).…”