Exchanging Gifts: Collaborative Research and Theories of Context

Abstract

Introduction:  The project we describe in this paper developed from a Program Adjustment Grant granted by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.  The project, which ran from 1989 to 1991, focused on the induction of new instructors to a community college.  Studying 'Induction Processes' for these instructors was particularly interesting because they had not been through any conventional 'teacher training' - hence we were able to observe their 'on the job' responses to the new educational workplace.