2019/07/26 by Kari Smith, Maria Assunção Flores, María Assunção Flores
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Educational Assessment and Improvement #Student Assessment and Feedback #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/02619768.2019.1646242
openalex publication_date 2019/07/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
This paper focuses on the Janus face-teacher educator and researcher. Drawing on existing international literature, our aim is to position ourselves in the discussion relating to our own and other research. In this paper we limit ourselves to discuss two main components, namely teaching and research in relation to which teacher educators seem to experience a rather strong tension. We maintain that the quality of teaching does not become inferior to research and publishing in teacher education. This necessitates that sufficient resources are provided for assuring the quality of teaching and for research; subsequently the two activities are complementary and not contradictory to each other. Our claim is that teacher educators in most settings are Janus-faced due to the competing demands of excellence in both research and teaching. However, we strongly believe that the two main responsibilities of teacher educators which form the Janus face, can melt into each other in the face of a researching teacher educator.