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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge ,
c2012
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| Edition: | Classic ed |
| Series: | Rutledge education classic edition series
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Table of Contents:
- 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