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SUMMARY:The use of think-aloud protocols to explore educators’ understan
 dings of contested concepts - Gabriela Martínez Sainz\, Faculty of Educat
 ion
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CONTACT:Lingling Xu
DESCRIPTION:Contested subjects like democracy\, justice and education itse
 lf are commonly used within the classroom but rarely defined. These kind o
 f abstract concepts are usually understood in many different\, even contra
 dictory\, ways leading to constant disagreements about their meaning\, sco
 pe and application. Furthermore\, the particular ways in which educators d
 efine and interpret these concepts can lead to contrasting teaching practi
 ces with different implications for the subject content and the learning p
 rocess. For this reason\, and using the concept of human rights as an exam
 ple\, I discuss the challenges and possibilities of examining educators’
  understandings of contested concepts. I draw upon previous research on su
 bjective dimensions of human rights advanced by Stenner (2010) to discuss 
 the use of innovative research methods to explore how educators make sense
  of this kind of concepts.
LOCATION:Room 2S3\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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