I am pleased to share with you this second number of the PROFILE Journal. Now we can assert this has become a means to socialise our teacher development programme outcomes with a wider audience throughout the country.

“[…] We propose that as teacher research of various kinds accumulates and is more widely disseminated, it will present a radical challenge to current assumptions about the relationship of theories and practice, schools and ...

With this edition we complete ten years of publication. What has the publication of your article(s) in profile meant to you? Publishing is a motivation for one to keep up-to-date, on the one hand, and a personal challenge ...

In memory of Professor Orlando Fals-Borda, who taught us the following: “It is possible to produce serious, responsible knowledge apt to accumulate through group vivencias and symmetrical information exchange…”1 As you ...

“If teachers are to commit themselves to research, they need to know that there is the possibility that their inquiries will be made public so that others can benefit from their findings. Moreover, as most academic researchers ...

Our readers might have seen several changes in the layout and organization of our journal in the last three years. This has been done not only to fulfil the requirements of international scientific journals, but to respond ...

“The settings where research is conducted have also been expanded to include not only actual (and virtual!) language classrooms, but meetings and mentoring sessions. We now seek to examine not only what we are teaching, ...

“There is a lot of writing already published from classroom teachers across the world; many topics have been covered beautifully by teachers in the past. But we wouldn’t be encouraging you if we didn’t know that most ...

OUR PURPOSE The PROFILE Journal is mainly interested in sharing the results of classroom research projects undertaken by primary and secondary school teachers as well as adult teachers while taking part in the Professional ...

PROFILE Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development This journal is led by the PROFILE research group at Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras -Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. It is a ...