Education and background
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC
M.Sc., Experimental Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Applied Computer Science Certificate, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Expertise
- Research-practice partnerships with teachers and administrators to co-design, foster, and investigate sustainable technology-enabled networks for learning and advanced pedagogical practices.
- Design-based implementation research on learning communities to understand and develop teachers’ and students’ knowledge, attitudes, motivation, interaction exchanges, and learning.
Projects:
PRACTIS is a research-practice partnership that include a university-based research team and school-based pedagogical consultants and teachers, engaging in, and investigating, activities of : a) co-design (collaborative learning design) of challenging learning activities, b) video capture of authentic classroom activities and, c) collaborative (data-based) reflective conversations. Inquiry and facilitation in the PLCs are central enablers of the three activities. We conceive of collaborative design and reflection as boundary activities between teaching and inquiry/research, mediated by rich artifacts from practice (mostly but not limited to video records of classroom events), that are experienced mostly through discourse, and that can be scaffolded by various facilitation processes.
- Creating, Collaborating, and Computing in Mathematics (CCC-M)
The Creating, Collaborating, and Computing in Mathematics (CCC-M) is a design-based research-practice partnership project for enhancing in-service teachers’ reflective practice in a professional learning network (PLN). 2012-2017.
Funding: SSHRC Partnership Development + MELS Chantier 7
- ARIM
ARIM: RECHERCHE SUR LES TRANSITION INTERORDRES en mathématiques impliquant des ENSEIGNANTS DU PRIMAIRE, SECONDAIRE ET COLLÉGIAL. 2016-2018.
Funding: FRQSC Action concertée “ Programme de recherche sur la persévérance et la réussite scolaires 2016-2017”
- PÉRISCOPE
PÉRISCOPE : Plateforme Échange, Recherche et Intervention sur la SCOlarité : Persévérance Et Réussite. 2016-2020.
Funding: FRQSC Action concertée “Développement d’un réseau de recherche sur la persévérance et la réussite scolaire”
Papers
Networked learning communities in teacher education
Author: Alain Breuleux, Laferriere, T. and Bracewell, R. | Source: Society for Information Technology &Teacher Education International Conference (9th, Washington,DC, March 10-14, 1998). Proceedings | Year: 1998
Partnerships for knowledge building: An emerging model
Author: Laferrière, T., Montané, M., Gros, B., Alvarez, I., Bernaus, M., Alain Breuleux and Lamon, M. | Source: Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology/La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie | Year: 2010
The emerging contribution of online resources and tools to classroom learning and teaching
Author: Bracewell, R., Alain Breuleux, Laferrière, T., Benoit, J. and Abdous, M. H. | Source: Report submitted to SchoolNet/Rescol by TeleLearning Network Inc. | Year: 1998
Use of video records of classroom practices to support teacher reflection in a professional learning network
Author: Dayan, L., Alain Breuleux, Heo, G. M. and Nong, L. | Source: Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference onEducational Media and Technology 2015 | Year: 2015