Sammendrag
Management documents for primary school teacher education at master’s level emphasize the development of students’ professional R&D competence. This study, which is part of a larger project on professional teacher competence, investigates how, early in their educational process, student teachers understand the R&D dimension in their education and what significance R&D has for them as students and future teachers. The findings show that the students perceive the concept of R&D as theory, research and research methods and further that the educational program does not seem to emphasize the D in R&D, nor does it support the students in seeing connections between the R and the D. The students express self-awareness and a personal commitment to the teaching profession, and the article concludes by pointing out the importance of the link between the students’ growing teacher identity and R&D activities in the educational program.
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