Teachers who frame the curriculum around purposeful playful activities that allow children to work at their own pace and allow children to make choices rather than be coerced into their work are indirectly committed to becoming researchers in their own classrooms. The art teacher-researcher is a participant observer of what goes on in the…

Proposes that art teachers become more informed about current research on art teaching and assume responsibility for initiating research on classroom teaching. States that teachers may (1) act as research subjects, (2) put research into practice, and (3) act as researchers. Discusses general considerations or conditions under which research can…

Discusses the role of teachers as researchers. Includes personal reflections on participation as a teacher researcher, observations as a teaching administrator conducting doctoral research in the classroom, and personal viewpoints as a state visual and performing arts supervisor. Considers the relationship between classroom research and the…