This blog is based on a presentation given in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research on 14th September 2024, where James Mbonyuburyo, Laurent Ahishakiye, and Jean Damascene Uwamahoro shared the lessons they have learned from conducting a Hornby-sponsored teacher-research project…
We are pleased to announce the completion of the Japanese translation of A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research by Richard Smith and Paula Rebolledo (2018). You can read about the story behind the translation in this blog post written by…
This personal reflection explores the power of supportive mentoring, both in my journey as a teacher and a researcher and in what I have learned from mentoring others. Through my experiences, I’ve realized that teachers can flourish if they are supported,…
Busy teachers have little time to read, and even less time to write. Research itself can be combined with teaching but busy teachers may decide that writing up their findings for publication is too daunting, tiresome or even unnecessary. How can…
I first began to think seriously about what it meant to be ethical in my teacher research when my classroom practice, and in particular, my Exploratory Practice (Hanks 2017), was generating the data for my doctorate. Although I had an…
This is the new website of MenTRnet, which itself is a newly named network for mentors of teacher-research in the field of English Language Teaching (though we don’t exclude mentors of teachers of other subjects). It’s ‘newly named’ because we…
