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This study examines the instructional steps that the author took, based on gaps between what was happening in a graduate literacy class she taught and what she had intended to happen. This study describes the ways that the author re-imagined the class and what came about when she created a pedagogical approach that featured multi-genre inquiry. The author found that the multi-genre approach led to moments of inter-discursivity as teachers extended their understandings by appropriating language from one genre into another.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 23, 2011
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A number of key constructs underpin educational action research. The current article focuses on the concept of 'truth' and by doing so hopes to highlight some debate in this area. In reflecting upon what 'truth' might mean to those involved in action research, the author shall critically evaluate Thorndike's 'Law of Effect' and Bruner's 'Three Forms of Representation'.The author shall close by suggesting that teacher-researchers should allow for a constructivist approach in their action research methodology in order to help them in their sense-making process.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 23, 2011
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In this article, the authors focus on an analysis of critical issues in supporting teacher educators conducting a self-study. The authors have found seven issues critical to enhancing the chances of self-studies being beneficial to the practice of teacher education as well as to the further development of a knowledge base for teacher education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Dec. 03, 2010
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A type of studies called ‘Governance Studies’, ‘Governance Research’ or ‘Governance Perspective’ has recently evolved in German-speaking social sciences. The goal of this article is to make accessible the strand of research which has not yet been extensively published in languages other than German. Further, the article intends to explore its links and relationships to other European research approaches.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 29, 2010
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The article illuminates three early–mid career teachers’ self-study inquiries, focusing on mask work. Through mask inquiries, the teachers constructed, deconstructed and disclosed to themselves narratives of personal/professional identity. Subsequent improvisation with their masks is shown to engage teachers emotionally with tensions and dissonances within and between their various personae and personal, professional and political contexts at each of their respective career life phases.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 17, 2010
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In this conceptual article, the author considers two apparently contradictory dynamics in learning. First, the Winnicottian notion of the split-off intellect, in which individual subjectivity is skewed toward thinking and away from affect. Second, an inversion of the first notion, in which affect splits off to form the central domain of experience, relationship, and defense against difficulty.The author uses narratives from several contexts in her own educational history – a student-teaching experience, a graduate course in educational theory, and my work as a preservice teacher educator-to discuss these two notions.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 12, 2010
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This article investigates the experiences of preservice and in-service teachers through intentionally created narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 2006) spaces within three different service-learning engagements in Canada, Kenya, and Turkey. The authors argue thinking narratively suits the purpose of learning within service learning, highlighting the potential this kind of work holds for preservice and in-service teachers' professional identities in school contexts shaped by diversity.
Published: 2010
Updated: Sep. 05, 2010
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In this study, the authors described an action research project enacted by a veteran Kindergarten teacher (Sarah) in the context of a professional development program. Over the course of a year, Sarah collaborated with other teachers in a small group to investigate how to use “Science Talks” to promote student learning in Kindergarten classrooms. Based on a rich set of data sources, the authors concluded that Sarah’s action research improved student learning and led to her own professional growth.
Published: 2010
Updated: Sep. 05, 2010
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This article reports on a programme in which senior advisers from different regions in Croatia developed action research projects in Croatian schools. The authors wanted to learn: How educational action research might be used by advisers and teachers in Croatia; and how educational action research is understood in this context. The authors found that the concept of action research was thoroughly understood by nearly all the advisers; the principles of action research were produced evidence of practical change, collaboration and mutual understanding.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 20, 2010
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In this article, the authors seek to (1) investigate the applicability of theories of insider/outsider status to research conducted by and with multiracial individuals, (2) interrogate their own research experiences as multiracial scholars conducting research with multiracial students, and (3) identify implications from their analysis for other researchers. The authors conclude that understandings of methodological terms related to monoracial populations are limited in their applicability to research with multiracial individuals.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 13, 2010