ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and evaluates that two practitioner research projects that were carried out by teacher educators working at a college for teacher training in the Netherlands. It introduces that practitioner research by way of brief comparison between three perspectives on the nature and justification of such research in education. The chapter follows that Aristotelian approach to practitioner research is described as a kind of moral enquiry mainly directed to the improvement of teachers' practical wisdom. It describes two research projects which both set out to help either pre-service or in-service teachers pay attention to virtues in their subject lessons. The chapter reflects on the question whether it is justified to call these research projects 'Aristotelian' after all. It discusses that 'practitioner' rather than 'professional', as this better fits the notion of 'practitioner research' and also reflects the sympathies with the Alasdair MacIntyrean notion of a 'practice', to which one shall return in due course.
