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Research and Development Work: Developing Teachers as Researchers or Just Teachers?
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Postholm, May Britt – Educational Action Research, 2009
This article focuses on the theoretical frame of action research and the teacher as researcher, working through a Norwegian Research Council-funded project in a school that explored learning strategies for pupils' subject and social development. Action research is here called research and development (R&D) work as the term envisages that…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Action Research, Learning Strategies, Adult Education
Teacher Research as a Robust and Reflective Path to Professional Development
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Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth; Crawford, Patricia A.; Hickmann, Rosemary – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
This article explores the role of teacher research as part of a robust program of professional development. Teacher research offers teachers at every stage of development a recursive and reflective means of bridging the gap between current practice and potential professional growth. The purpose of this dual level inquiry was to probe the concept…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Master Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Researchers
Pedagogy of the Repressed: Research and Professionality within HE in FE
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Wilson, Andrew; Wilson, Benita – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
This paper provides a reflective focus on the concept of change to the professional identity of FE lecturers. Traditional perceptions of FE staff as vocational specialists are contested and the emergence of a new professional with an extended professionality is discussed. The changes analysed deal with the emergence of the HE in FE sector and the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Reflective Teaching, Vocational Education, Higher Education
Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research. Pen Green Books for Early Years Educators
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Arnold, Cath, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research" shows how research has informed and created effective and valuable reflective practice in early years education, and offers depth to the arguments for a research-orientated stance to this vital field of study. This thought-provoking text explores and documents a variety…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Leadership Effectiveness
A Portrait of the Researcher as a Boundary Crosser
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Vakkayil, Jacob D. – Journal of Research Practice, 2007
This article traces the roots of the author's doctoral work to his pre-doctoral experiences in varied spheres of practice. The research choices made are thus inevitably influenced by these experiences. These include the selection of an interdisciplinary domain to locate his doctoral work, the choice of a "boundary object" as the unit of analysis,…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Researchers, Experimenter Characteristics, Research Methodology
Teaching for Understanding. Linking Research with Practice. The Jossey-Bass Education Series.
Wiske, Martha Stone, Ed. – 1998
From 1988 through 1995 a group of researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education collaborated with teachers from nearby schools on research to address questions about teaching for understanding and linking research with practice. They describe the theoretical foundations underlying the Teaching for Understanding framework, the process and…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Educational Theories