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Glanfield, Florence; Nicol, Cynthia; Thom, Jennifer S. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
How might mathematics educators recognize discourses as resonating harmonies in their practices as researchers? In this paper we share individual experiential narratives guided by Ojibway author Richard Wagamese's Medicine Wheel teachings in the four directions of East (humility), South (trust), West (introspection), and North (wisdom). As we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Personal Narratives
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Wideman, Ron – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2011
This article presents the author's keynote address delivered at the "North Eastern Ontario Education Network 2011 Research Carousel: Evidence in the Classroom--Affecting Student Achievement at the Grassroots Level." In this address, the author first discusses teachers and learning in the literature on adult and professional learning.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Empowerment
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Hautecoeur, Jean Paul – 1991
This bilingual exploration of program-based research discusses research in the everyday life of literacy programs and is also an account of one practitioner's personal experience. The first part explains the concept of program-based research. The second part reports on the relative lack of research in this area and gives a brief analysis of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Literacy Education
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Dicker, Mary – Theory into Practice, 1990
A Canadian secondary school teacher relates how reflecting on her teaching decisions through action research enabled her to cope with teaching a course in an unfamiliar subject area. (IAH)
Descriptors: Action Research, Drama, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Steinhauer, Patricia – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2001
A Cree teacher-researcher in Alberta enrolled in a graduate education program in hopes of gaining insight into the low achievement of students in reserve schools. Courses taught from an Indigenous perspective and her own research with reservation students led her to the notion of inherent wisdom, expressed in the metaphor of a tree whose roots…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cultural Relevance, Educational Experience
Program-Based Research Special Interest Group, London (Ontario). – 1993
This publication contains nine articles about the process of doing research by literacy practitioners and volunteers in several areas of the Ontario (Canada) literacy field. "Implementing a Workplace Program: A Look Back" (Maria Ioannou-Makrakis) describes the process followed and the learning outcomes from planning, implementing, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Basic Skills
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Grimmett, Peter P. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Advocates a reconceptualization of Canadian teacher preparation that will involve partnerships in and outside the university. Shows how a reconceptualized concurrent preparation program would bring together discipline-based and practical knowledge, engaging preservice teachers in action research into the dilemmas of teaching, and integrating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries
Russell, Tom – 1993
An educator who teaches physics to grade 12 students and a physics curriculum and methods course to preservice teachers analyzes the impact of context on teaching practice. A paper by A. Richert titled "Voice and Power in Teaching and Learning To Teach" is used as the foundation for interpreting the author's experience of teaching…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Context Effect, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Willinsky, John; Bobie, Allen – 1986
Statewide competency testing as a high school graduation requirement represents a threat to those who encourage broad notions of reading and writing, even when a number of testing innovations in reading and writing mean a step forward in education. In Alberta, Canada, the English exam comes in a non-academic and an academic version, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English Curriculum, Essays, Foreign Countries
Robottom, Ian; Sauvee, Lucie – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
We reflect on methodological issues arising in two of our own research projects as a form of practice, as a way of engaging in a praxis of project research. The projects chosen for this purpose are themselves concerned with teacher education and curriculum development in environmental education: they include participatory "reflective…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Participatory Research, Informal Education, Environmental Education