TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating the Factors That are Associated With Teachers’ Intentions to Utilize Research in Remote Areas of Greece
AU - Trikoilis, Dionysios
AU - Papanastasiou, Elena C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The main findings of this manuscript arise from the doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Nicosia (Trikoilis and Papanastasiou, 2019 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Trikoilis and Papanastasiou.
PY - 2021/10/25
Y1 - 2021/10/25
N2 - Teachers around the world, serving in remote areas experience professional isolation (Bouck, 2004). In addition to being geographically isolated, challenges to remote teaching include a lack of professional support (Ralph, 2002) and experience of social isolation. Yet, the utilization of educational research has the potential to alleviate this issue. Therefore, this study examines the interplay between the factors that can possibly explain the teacher’s intentions to use research for professional development purposes in remote schools in Greece. Based on the results of the Structural Equation Model that was examined, research attitudes had the strongest direct relationship to intending to use research for professional development purposes, although research skills also played a major role (directly, and indirectly) in this relationship.
AB - Teachers around the world, serving in remote areas experience professional isolation (Bouck, 2004). In addition to being geographically isolated, challenges to remote teaching include a lack of professional support (Ralph, 2002) and experience of social isolation. Yet, the utilization of educational research has the potential to alleviate this issue. Therefore, this study examines the interplay between the factors that can possibly explain the teacher’s intentions to use research for professional development purposes in remote schools in Greece. Based on the results of the Structural Equation Model that was examined, research attitudes had the strongest direct relationship to intending to use research for professional development purposes, although research skills also played a major role (directly, and indirectly) in this relationship.
KW - attitudes toward research
KW - educational inequality
KW - educational research
KW - professional development
KW - remote schools
KW - teacher training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118756137&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/feduc.2021.658011
DO - 10.3389/feduc.2021.658011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118756137
SN - 2504-284X
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Education
JF - Frontiers in Education
M1 - 658011
ER -