Experiments as a means to cater for better transfer in continued professional development

This project aims to enhance the impact of continued professional development by engaging participants in experimenting with their practice, collecting and analysing data from their experiments, and act as peer reviewers on one another’s experiments. The research will investigate what factors hinder and support transformative learning and transfer to practice in this approach to continued professional development, based on active experimenting in practice. We consider transfer to be a continued learning process, and boundary crossing as a learning opportunity. The context is the Danish primary and lower secondary school (basic school), and participants are leaders who are required to develop their competences in instructional leadership and build their competence and confidence to engage in discussions of curriculum and pedagogy with the teachers. Participants will be co-researchers in this action research project, and data collected through the experiments as well as through common reflection sessions and interviews.