This case study narrative of a middle school science teacher's experience of science education and commitment to promoting equity was developed collaboratively by the teacher and a university researcher. It demonstrates how this form of case study can be a way to represent teachers' practical knowledge. (SK)

Discusses how to involve students and teachers in music education research through the use of two resources: (1) "Music Education Research"; and (2) "A Research Agenda for Music Education." Stresses the importance for teachers to apply music education research in their teaching. Focuses on brain-behavior and neurobiology as one emerging area of…

Includes 10 theme articles addressing research uses in agricultural education, including research on effective teaching, classrooms as teaching labs, teacher inquiry, agriscience achievement, learning communities, applications of Bloom's taxonomy, use of the elements of reasoning, end-of-term student presentations, and personality types. (SK)

There is a great deal of energy going into encouraging teachers to carry out research. This article, arising from interviews with teachers in four contrasting schools, explores three related questions enquiring into what teachers think about research; how they feel about doing research and, most importantly perhaps, why they choose to continue to…

Much has been written about the value of teacher research for inservice teachers. Despite the existence of several studies affirming these words, studies that richly describe how student teachers learn to do teacher research and then investigate the impact of inquiry on student teachers and teacher educators, particularly in culturally and…

This paper presents aspects of a study in progress on the legitimate function of fiction in research. A section on methodology describes how the study started with a project of narratives written in response to the black and white photographs of one of the collaborators. Analysis of the response process revealed a connection between fiction and…

For one educator, her career as a researcher probably began when she was 7 and arranged her own "library" on the back wall of the family laundry room. During the summer between her junior and senior years of college, she worked at a state institution for the mentally retarded and found herself questioning why the "clients" were…

Over the past few years, teacher research has become increasingly popular both as a movement and as an emerging field. Ideology plays a prominent and underestimated role in the group dynamics and activities of teacher research groups. Treatments of teacher research remain directed mainly at clarifying the content, the status, and the boundaries of…

Recent reform documents have identified practitioners' lack of awareness and implementation of exemplary, innovative practices, and major national associations have noted the ongoing gap between research and practice. The literature supports collaborative action research and teacher researchers as methods to expand the base of educational research…

This study used a five-phased, multi-modal research design to develop a pedagogical plan for collaborative learning in freshman composition classrooms, a plan intended to improve student writing within a collaborative environment and be readily adaptable to a range of teaching contexts. The five-phased project used the following methods: (1)…

Provides information about a classroom implementation experiment in vocabulary research. A daily journal was kept to help in conducting the experiment, a secondary goal of which was to determine whether the new instruction was more or less effective. (NKA)

This book presents ways that preservice and inservice teachers can conduct research in their classrooms, showing how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. Seven chapters focus on: (1) "Try to Love the Questions Themselves: Finding and Framing a Research Question"; (2) "Form and Function: The…

This study documents the development of 13 masters degree candidates as they progressed through a course in educational research methods. Eight were inservice teachers and five were preservice teachers who had completed student teaching. Part of an ongoing assessment effort at a small college instituting a new masters in education program, the…

This compendium focuses on intellectual property law, which includes copyrights, patents, and trademarks as well as applications of intellectual property in distance learning software, the Internet, and research data. It includes formal journal articles, policies, and outlines from the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Ten…

This collection of papers examines the hidden risks that teacher researchers may face in action research. There are 12 papers in three parts. Part 1, "School-Based Researchers," includes: (1) "Drafting Ethical Guidelines for Teacher Research in Schools" (Marian M. Mohr); (2) "'Tuesday Night' Revisited: Learning to Survive" (Leslie Turner Minarik);…