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My Journey to This Place Called the RAC: Reflections on a Movement in Critical Race Thought and Critical Race Hope in Higher Education
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Solorzano, Daniel G. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This chapter recounts the story of how I came to design a Research Apprenticeship Course at UCLA--what we call the RAC. I lay out the origin story of the RAC dating back to early collaborations with Arturo Madrid of the Tomas Rivera Policy Research Center and the Ford Foundation Family of Fellows in the mid to late 1980s. These collaborations…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Projects, Apprenticeships, Research Training
Major Outcomes of an Authentic Astronomy Research Experience Professional Development Program: An Analysis of 8 Years of Data from a Teacher Research Program
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Rebull, L. M.; French, D. A.; Laurence, W.; Roberts, T.; Fitzgerald, M. T.; Gorjian, V.; Squires, G. K. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) provides a year-long authentic astronomy research project by partnering a research astronomer with small groups of educators. NITARP has worked with a total of 103 educators since 2005. In this paper, surveys are explored that were obtained from 74 different educators, at up to four waypoints…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Astronomy, Scientists, Teacher Surveys
"It's Not Just Learning English, It's Learning Other Cultures": Belonging, Power, and Possibility in an Immigrant Contact Zone
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Malsbary, Christine Brigid – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
This ethnographic investigation of a multiethnic, multilingual classroom examines the ways in which immigrant students' goals for community and belonging were mediated by their vibrant cultural and linguistic practices. Findings demonstrate how youth formed a community of practice through brokering acts, resource pooling, and linguistic play…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Acculturation, Ethnography, Multilingualism
Considering Community Literacies in the Secondary Classroom: A Collaborative Teacher and Researcher Study Group
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Carbone, Paula M.; Reynolds, Rema E. – Teacher Development, 2013
A year long study group brought teachers and researchers working in urban contexts in US public schools together to examine literacy practices incorporating students' community literacies into schooled tasks. The goal was to provide teacher development in making connections across their students' community literacies and the academic literacy they…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Our Inquiry, Our Practice: Undertaking, Supporting, and Learning from Early Childhood Teacher Research(ers)
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Perry, Gail, Ed.; Henderson, Barbara, Ed.; Meier, Daniel R., Ed. – National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2012
Through "teacher research", teachers engage in the systematic study of their own practice to answer questions they have about teaching and learning, and their own effectiveness. This book explores what teacher research in the early childhood setting looks like, why it is important to the field of early childhood education, and how…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children