Describes efforts by 2 researchers (an anthropologist and a psychologist) to conduct collaborative research on teachers and teacher education, drawing on 10 years of work and literature on interdisciplinary collaboration. The article emphasizes issues important in remaining true to each discipline, and it notes the role of compromise. (SM)

This book presents the personal experiences of two educational researchers as they learned to conduct classroom research and combines their personal stories with an academic argument about the kinds of classroom research needed in the future. The chapters in this volume emphasize how the social science disciplines of psychology and anthropology…