IP 90-4 Two views of the role of research on teacher thinking.
Abstract
This Issue Paper includes two papers, one by Robert E. Floden and Hans Gerhard Klinzing, the other by Magdalene Lampert and Christopher Clark. Both sets of authors are working to discern the way(s) in which research can contribute to practice and to improvements in practice. The Floden/Klinzing paper reviews literature on this topic, taking issue in particular with earlier work by Lampert and Clark. The Lampert/Clark paper is less a rebuttal to Floden and Klinzing than an effort to clarify and further develop their own ideas. The conversation among these authors should help readers in a variety of contexts better understand this important issue.