Theory into Practice

For those concerned to provide accounts of educational practice, conceptualising the relationship between the theory they produce and the practice which they are describing is central to their activities. In short, how this relationship is understood is important both because it affects the type of account produced and because it impacts upon the improvement of practices per se. There are five possible positions which can be taken, with proponents of each adopting different viewpoints as to how theory about educational practices is constructed and how it relates to those self-same educational practices.