Teachers as researchers : qualitative inquiry as a path to empowerment

"Teachers as Researchers urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves. Teachers are being encouraged to carry out research in order to improve their effectiveness in the classroom...

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Main Author: Kincheloe, Joe L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge , c2012
Edition:Classic ed
Series:Rutledge education classic edition series
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300 |a xix, 279 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 25 cm. 
490 1 |a Rutledge education classic edition series 
500 |a First published 1991 by Routledge 
500 |a This classis edition published 2012 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction: positivistic standards and the bizarre educational world of the twenty-first century -- 2. Teachers as researchers, good work and troubled times -- 3. Connecting knower and known: constructing an emancipating system of meanin -- 4. Exploring assumptions behind education research - defining positivism in a neo-positivist era -- 5. What constitutes knowledge? -- 6. Purposes of research: the concept of instrumental rationality -- 7. The quest for certainty -- 8. Verifiability and the concept of rigor in qualitative research -- 9. The value of the qualitative dimension -- 10. Values, objectivity, and ideology -- 11. The foundations of teacher research: a sample syllabus 
520 |a "Teachers as Researchers urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves. Teachers are being encouraged to carry out research in order to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, but this book suggests that they also reflect on and challenge the reductionist and technicist methods that promote a 'top down' system of education. It argues that only by engaging in complex, critical research will teachers rediscover their professional status, empower their practice in the classroom and improve the quality of education for their pupils. Now re-released to introduce this classic guide for teachers, the new edition of Teachers as Researchers now also includes an introductory chapter by Shirley R. Steinberg, McGill University, that sets the book within the context of both the subject and the historical perspective. In addition, she also provides information on some key writing that extends the bibliography of this influential book thereby bringing the material fully up to date with current research. Postgraduate students of education and experienced teachers will find much to inspire and encourage them in this definitive book" -- Provided by publisher 
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650 0 |a Qualitative research   |z United States 
650 0 |a Teachers   |z United States 
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