Researching teacher education and CALL

Methodological and ethical challenges face anyone engaged in humanresearch and this is equally true when confronted when trying toconsider the landscape of teacher education and CALL. We also have theadded complexity of the technological environments that we are engaged in. In the broader educational and TESOL teacher education fields we haveseen a shift towards an exploration of teaching that looks at whatteachers do, what they believe about what they do, the contexts theyengage in, the tools they deploy and their relationships to theirlearners. This is underwritten from a number of different theoretical perspectives, but many of which can be considered sociocultural intheir origin, as argued by Johnson (2006) when talking about TESOL in general. This talk will present a brief background view of a number theoreticalperspectives and explore through recent and current projects howmethodologies and theory have been or might be utilised. It will argue that for each case we need to fashion an instrument which best suits the needs of the research in hand and that we need to be pragmatic in our choice.