Alignment in Teacher Education and Distribution of Leadership: An Example Concerning Learning Study (Report‪)‬

Introduction: Leadership in society In this presentation three critical aspects of education are lifted forward: the aspects of distribution of professional leadership, of alignment in learning and of research close to practices. The aim is to exemplify a research project, according to the mentioned aspects, with learning study as an approach for alignment between teacher education and practice supervisors' practice, and as consequence an instrument for distribution of power and leadership in teacher education and also between teacher education and practice. Learning study is an approach for developing lessons, using a theory of variation, the later described in Marton, Runesson and Tsui (2004). The expected result of a learning study is primary pupils' learning and for teacher education, systematic scientifically knowledge, developed in a way possible for teachers and teacher students to apply and distribute. In the conduction of a learning study there are similarities to action research, and action research also is a way of distributing leadership and power in an involving democratic way, see e.g. Sharmann (2007).