Practitioner research in teacher education : theory and best practices / Issa M. Saleh, Myint Swe Khine (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. Practitioner Research and School Practices -- 1. Creating a Place for Research in Schools: Flowing with the Tide or Swimming Upstream? / Colleen McLaughlin -- 2. Creating a Schoolwide Culture to Support Practitioner Research / Lisa J. Vernon-Dotson, Temple S. Lovelace, Kaleigh N. Bantum -- 3. Curriculum Management and Development: Practitioner Research And Quality Learning / Nagendralingan Ratnavadivel, Lim Chong Hin -- 4. Reconstructing professional knowledge through collaborative participatory research / Lynne Hannay -- Part II. Practitioner Research: Pathways to Practice -- 5. From Portrait to Practice. Learning to research into learning and teaching / Johanna F. Schwarz, Michael Schratz -- 6. Teachers as Researchers: Models of Professional Learning / Muriel Wells -- 7. Pushing the Field of Practitioner Research: Utilizing 'Reflective Third Spaces' to Explore Educational Practice / Ryan Flessner -- 8. Practitioner research for ESL in Indigenous education - who is the practitioner and what is the practice? / Robin McTaggart -- 9. Professional portfolios: A platform for graduate students' self-study / Helen Mahoney -- Part III. Practitioner Research: Opportunities and Challenges -- 10. Opportunities and Obstacles in Action Research as a Pathway to Developing as a Practitioner Researcher / Reyes L. Quezada, Heather Lattimer, Joi Spencer -- 11. A 'Framework of Opportunity' for Practitioner Research / Christa Fouche, Neil Lunt -- 12. Teacher Inquiry as Phenomenological Bildungsroman / Jeong-Hee Kim -- 13. Opportunities and Obstacles: Thriving and Overcoming in Practitioner Research / Amy Vetter, Melissa Marty, Joy Myers, Hollis Wroblewski, Madison Barringer, Ashlea Hitchcock -- 14. The Ethics of Moving from Deficit Research to Youth Participatory Action Research / Joan T. Wynne -- 15. The Preparation and Training of Elementary and Secondary School Teachers in the USA Related to Social Diversity / Gregory M. Hauser, Thomas P. Thomas -- 16. Experienced Educators and Practitioner Research: The Challenge for University Graduate Programs / Gail E. Burnaford -- 17. The Importance of Ethics and Practitioner Research in High-Poverty Schools / Pam Bishop.

"Over the past decade there has been increased interest in teachers' investigation of their own practice in their classrooms. Practitioner research is not a new concept in education and many teachers have attempted to enact and study their own practices with the view of improving teaching effectiveness. However, the findings of many of these studies are often not treated seriously by education scholars and policymakers, and not disseminated to others. In fact, the research process is perceived more as a professional development exercise for teachers to improve upon their own practices. Despite these criticisms, there is growing support for getting teachers to study their practices in the context of their own classrooms. This book has the potential of generating knowledge that not only informs and shapes teachers' practices and professional development, but also makes the stakeholders aware of critical education issues. Distinct from action research, practitioner research provides the platform for teachers to try out ideas in practice as a means of improvement and of increasing knowledge about curriculum, teaching, and learning, and the ways of transforming them."--Publisher's website.

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