David Tripp

David Tripp
Murdoch University · School of Education

PhD University of Cambridge 1978

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Introduction
David Tripp is retired from university employment, but as an Emeritus A-Professor he continues to do work in school teaching and learning, specialising in Teacher Education, Action Research, and Development of Educational Theory. His current project is on 'Developing Educology: Principles of Practice as a new way to codify experienced teachers' professional knowledge for teacher education'.

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Publications (34)
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This is a short introduction to the principles of practice project. There are basically 3 parts to it — (1) Where it started, which was with my increasing awareness of the fact that the kind of advice I was giving to teacher education students during their school experience modules did not appear to be being collected or discussed in either schools...
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Following an introductory outline of the components of educology, the paper demonstrates how principles of practice can be used in the provision of feed-back on a critical incident recorded by a student during the practicum of the final unit of a BEd. course.
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This is simply a guide to the first cycle of an action learning process. It's an MSWord .doc formatted as a questionnaire — simply download it and start to add your text in the line below each question. Please note that this form is Copyright ©, but made available here for personal, non-commercial educational purposes. If you wish to use it for an...
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This is the second of two opinion pieces written for The Australian College of Education’s Forum for Policy, Research and Practice in Education in response to the Australian Government’s mistaken push towards trying to improving the outcomes of schooling by turning teacher education and professional development into sets of competencies. The first...
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This is the first of two opinion pieces written for The Australian College of Education’s Forum for Policy, Research and Practice in Education in response to the Australian Government’s mistaken push towards trying to improving the outcomes of schooling by turning teacher education and professional development into sets of competencies. This paper...
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As a result of its greatly increased in popularity and range of application, action research has now become a loosely applied term for any kind of attempt to improve or investigate practice. In view of the confusion that frequently arises from this, the main aim of this author is to clarify the term. After a brief history of the method, the makes a...
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As a result of its greatly increased in popularity and range of application, action research has now become a loosely applied term for any kind of attempt to improve or investigate practice. In view of the confusion that frequently arises from this, the main aim of this author is to clarify the term. After a brief history of the method, the makes a...
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This template is informed by the prior https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299860717_Attachment_1-_Intro_to_AR_EdnProject. It was written for the author's introduction to tertiary teaching course required for teaching staff tenure at Murdoch University. Students simply complete the form, writing as much as they need to at any point. With the...
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Singapore, like many other state educational systems, is in the throes of moving from a highly centralised structure towards a more diversified one in which schools are more autonomous learning organisations. Any paradigm shift is at best a slow and difficult process, and although the government is putting a lot of energy and resources into it, the...
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The aim of this article is to suggest a solution to the problem that there are now many forms and variations of a common improvement cycle that includes the following procedures in sequence: plan an improvement to practice — implement the plan in practice — monitor and evaluate the results of the change to practice. Action research, reflective prac...
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Beginning from the premise that methods and outcomes depend upon the interests and intentions of the biographer, this article addresses several issues in the production of teachers’ life histories. Most of these have to do with the politics of the method, such as, “Who gets to say what about whom, to whom, and with what results?” The primary benefi...
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In this paper it is argued that teacher education has already gone through two major stages (or waves) in its development, and is perhaps about to embark on a third. The first part presents a broad history of various models in terms of three major variables: where pre-service learning is located, how the study of education is constituted, and who c...
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Collective reflection by subordinate groups leads to recognition not only of the roles of dominant groups in constructing established beliefs and practices, but also of their own roles in that process and of their own potential power to reconstruct such beliefs and practices. (Livingstone, 1987, p. 8)
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In this paper I have suggested that teachers are not well served by the products of educational research. It has an ideology which tends to denigrate teachers in a number of different ways, deprofessionalises them, and legitimates control of them by others. Teachers are not able to resist these processes, partly because they cannot do their own res...
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... educational reformers have responded to the crises in public education by primarily offering solutions that either ignore the roles of teachers in preparing learners to be active and critical citizens, or they suggest reforms that ignore the intelligence, judgement and experience that teachers might bring to bear. (Aronowitz & Giroux, 1985, p....
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This paper is written from the author's experience during his first major curriculum project evaluation, when as is often the case, practical rather than theoretical considerations were foregrounded. However, as in any evaluation, issues which appeared to be essentially practical were often later seen as examples of more general problems which were...
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As part of an attempt to understand why teachers use particular approaches to planning, this study addressed the question of how primary teachers are taught to plan by training institutions in Western Australia. The main reason for conducting this survey was the assumption that, although teachers' planning is influenced by other factors (such as th...
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The most common means of making a new project or teaching approach relevant to a particular group of pupils is to provide a rationale relating the problems to a solution or "best fit". I have attempted such a rationale elsewhere (Tripp, 1976) based upon needs of the child and the possibilities of self-actualisation. What I wish to do here is to sho...

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