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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Bibliographic Details
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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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