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Lytle, Susan L.; Portnoy, Dina; Waff, Diane; Buckley, Molly – Educational Action Research, 2009
This article takes the history of teacher research in one large urban school district over a period of 20 years as a telling case of the intensely local character of this work. Beginning with an overview of the variations and different conceptions of teacher research in the USA, we argue that teacher research is continually being invented and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Researchers, Educational History, School Districts
Lytle, Susan L.; McGuire, Peggy – NCAL Connections, 1993
Staff development continues to be an important but much-debated topic in adult basic education and adult literacy education. Some staff development professionals start with the "deficit" model, in which learners are presumed to be empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. This model ignores the rich and varied experience that practitioners bring…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Educational Improvement