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Publication Date: 2016
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Principals and Teachers as Partners in Critical, Participatory Action Research
Nixon, Rhonda
Educational Action Research, v24 n3 p404-423 2016
This article reports on a two-year study of one principal's professional learning practices in "Transform," a professional learning program in Edmonton Catholic Schools, Alberta, Canada. Transform was designed to be a bottom-up, morally-oriented professional learning approach in which principals and teachers worked as partners on critical, participatory action research projects. This article examines the research question "How are principals shifting from technically- to morally-oriented professional learning practices in their schools?" and explores one theme--co-creating social spaces for risk-taking--to illustrate how principals shifted from being managers of teachers' learning to being partners with teachers in researching and refining classroom practices.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Principals, Faculty Development, Partnerships in Education, Participatory Research, Action Research, Research Projects, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Catholic Educators, Educational Research, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews, Risk, Elementary Schools, Junior High Schools, High Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Edmonton)
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