© Taylor & Francis. "This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Action Research on 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2016.1141107
Educational Action Research, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 2017
Collaborative action research
Information and communication technologies
Initial teacher training
Innovation
Junior researchers
Agoras
ABSTRACT: The study presented in this article forms part of a wider project promoting collaboration between junior researchers from different universities with the objective of rethinking and improving teaching practice in relation to the use of technology. The article describes research carried out during the 2012/13 academic year aimed at developing collaborative action research through technologically mediated agoras involving students from three Spanish universities. The main results of this study show that junior researchers improved their teaching practice through technologically mediated inside and outside agoras. In addition, the transformation of university classrooms into agoras enabled the negotiated reconstruction of knowledge for the analysis of good practice in the use of technology. Likewise, these agoras helped reduce limitations by breaking down the barriers of time, distance and resources for sharing findings and limitations between junior researchers. Furthermore, they pave the way for improvements and their implementation in learning processes during initial teacher training.
