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Comber, Barbara – English in Australia, 2013
As educators encounter a policy landscape where increasingly the education lexicon includes keywords such as data, evidence, quality, and standards, it is interesting to revisit Garth Boomer's contribution regarding teachers as researchers. In "Fair Dinkum Teaching and Learning," Boomer (1985) clearly named at least two key problems that…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Action Research, Literacy, Cooperation
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Colucci-Gray, Laura; Fraser, Christine – Ethnography and Education, 2012
Despite science's central role in European culture, public perception of, and participation with, science is characterised by contradictions and conflicting agenda. School curriculum reform, for example by Scottish Government, promotes "science for citizenship", yet teachers' understandings of the nature of science and its relationship…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Linguistics, Science and Society, Educational Change