A new paradigm of educational research is presented that is grounded in the living educational theories that educational action researchers produce for their own professional learning. In this new paradigm there is no one theoretical framework. Each individual action researcher is creating his or her own living theory in the explanations for their…

This paper argues that school and university teachers could become part of a unified profession of educators through the creative and critical contributions of a new discipline of educational inquiry to the professional knowledge base for teaching. The first section consists of graduate-level dissertations and theses of teacher researchers who…

This conference presentation describes the characteristics of a living educational theory, explores its implications for self-study methodology, and offers a self-study from an educative relationship with a teacher educator. The theory has its basis in the following ideas: educators exist as living contradictions when their values are negated in…