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SUMMARY:Teachers as Researchers: Myth or Reality in Kazakhstan? - Dr Kaira
 t Kurakbayev and Darkhan Bilyalov\, Nazarbayev University Centre for Educa
 tional Policy
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CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
DESCRIPTION:The idea of “teacher-as-researcher” has been actively prop
 osed by different scholars across the world. \nOne of the approaches to st
 udying one's professional practice critically\, advocated by Western schol
 ars\, \nis Action Research. Given a wide range of educational reforms in K
 azakhstan\, teacher educators and \nteachers are privileged to adopt new i
 deas brought to their classrooms through teacher development \ncourses. Th
 is paper presents teachers' learning experiences of doing Action Research 
 on a 10-month \nteacher training course at the Centre for Educational Poli
 cy\, Nazarbayev University. It goes on to \ndiscuss teachers' perceptions 
 of their roles as researchers. It examines (de)motivating factors and \nex
 ternal circumstances influencing their values\, beliefs and attitudes towa
 rds the role of teacher-asresearcher. It also draws on the authors' person
 al experiences of taking part in the initial teacher \neducation programme
 s and INSET courses. The paper is based on the interview and survey data a
 nd\, \nmore importantly\, takes teachers' voices seriously.
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