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Author : Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Action research
ISBN : 0203396618
This collection provides a worldwide perspective on action research, a process which covers educational, professional, managerial and organizational development.
Author : Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135715908
This collection provides a worldwide perspective on action research, a process which covers educational, professional, managerial and organizational development.
Author : Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135715915
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kurt W. Clausen,Glenda Black
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780228002376
While the action research community across Canada is a vibrant one, it remains scattered, dismissed as rootless and still unproven. This book illuminates action research as a vital and long-established Canadian perspective, taking stock of its use in education by a wide array of scholars and practitioners. Reflecting an inclusive range of viewpoints from twenty-two scholars across the nation, chapters show without question that action research - encompassing collaborative, iterative, and practice-based research - is a growing field in Canada. Authors bring a range of experiences that speak to the many facets of this movement. They discuss historical foundations, individual and large-scale projects dealing with a multitude of subject areas and educational practices, and participatory methods that speak to the discipline's capacity to engage with the pressing social issues of our time. A timely intervention that threads the field together and serves as both a reference and a guide to further work, The Future of Action Research in Education draws clear links between the past and future and maps bold new directions for this approach.
Author : Richard A. Schmuck
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412962865
'Practical Action Research' is a compilation of critical commentaries that offer practical steps for understanding and implementing action research. The contributors demonstrate how educators can reflect, collect data, and create alternative ways to improve their practice in the classroom and schoolwide.
Author : S. Nombuso Dlamini
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552382127
A collection of essays which critically examines education in the African context and presents possible courses of action to reinvent its future.
Author : Robin McTaggart
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791435342
Presents an engaging introduction to the international conversation about enhancing social and educational practice using participatory action research.
Author : Tricia M. Kress,Curry Malott,Bradley J. Porfilio
Publisher : Information Age Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 1623960495
This year (2012) marks ten years of No Child Left Behind and the U.S. federal government's official designation of what qualifies as "scientifically based research" (SBR) in education. Combined, these two policies have resulted in a narrowing of education via standardization and high stakes testing (Au, 2007) as well as the curtailment of forms of inquiry that are deemed legitimate for examining education (Wright, 2006). While there has been much debate about the benefits and limitations of the NCLB legislation (e.g., Au, 2010) and SBR (e.g., Eisenhart & Towne, 2003), critical researchers have held strong to their position: The reductionistic narrowing of education curricula and educational research cannot solve the present and historical inequities in society and education (Shields, 2012). Contrarily, reductionism (via standardization and/or methodological prescription) exacerbates the challenges we face because it effectively erases the epistemological, ontological, and axiological diversity necessary for disrupting hegemonic social structures that lie at the root of human suffering (Kincheloe, 2004). Not only has NCLB proven incapable of overcoming inequalities, but there seems to be sufficient evidence to suggest it was never really intended to eliminate poverty and human suffering. That is, it seems NCLB, despite its lofty title and public discourse, is actually designed to advance the agenda of handing public education over to for-profit corporations to manage and privatize thereby intensifying the capitalist class' war on those who rely on a wage to survive (Malott, 2010). In the present ethos, reductionism upholds and retrenches the status quo (i.e. the basic structures of power), and it puts at risk education and educational research as means of working toward social justice (Biesta, 2007). Because social justice can be interpreted in multiple ways, we might note that we understand critical social justice as oriented toward action and social change. Thus, critical education and research may have potential to contribute to a number of social justice imperatives, such as: redistributing land from the neo-colonizing settler-state to Indigenous peoples, halting exploitative labor relations and hazardous working conditions for wage-earners, and engaging in reparations with formerly enslaved communities.
Author : Josef Huber,Branko Bognar,Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287184122
A community of practice of the professionals of the education around the values and the principles of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe’s Pestalozzi Programme promotes the message of the Organisation and its values – human rights, democracy and the rule of law – in the practice of education (formal, non-formal and informal) and aims to support member states in including these ideals in their education systems. Basing its approach to professional development firmly on social constructivism and social constructionism, it invests in educators who create new practices. This book represents an example of a transformational enterprise in which several practitioners from different parts of Europe gather in the Pestalozzi Programme community of practice and set out to learn how to become action researchers. While many books focus on how to carry this out, this publication is action research in action. In addition, it features examples of how participants can use online social platforms and affordable web applications in their collaboration and learning practices.
Author : Greg Light (Ph. D.),Greg Light,Roy Cox
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 076196553X
This book addresses the practice of learning and teaching within higher education. Higher education is currently a sector challenged worldwide by increased numbers and diversity of students, tougher demands for professional accountability, increasing calls for educational relevance, thinning resources and the exacting demands of a global education market. This book brings together key issues of theory and practice to develop an overall professional 'language' of teaching situated within communities of academic practice. This 'language' provides teachers with a conceptual 'vocabulary' and 'grammar' for understanding and improving practice, enables them to critically reflect upon their teaching in a range of key 'genres'
Author : Jean McNiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134600847
Since the first edition of this established text was published in 1988, action research has gained ground as a popular method amongst educational researchers, and in particular for practising teachers doing higher-level courses. In this new edition Jean McNiff provides updates on methodological discussions and includes new sections of case study material and information on supporting action research. The book raises issues about how action research is theorised, whether it is seen as a spectator discipline or as a real life practice, and how practitioners position themselves within the debate. It discusses the importance for educators of understanding their own work and showing how their educative influence can lead to the development of good orders in formal and informal learning settings and in the wider community. This second edition comes at a time when, after years of debate over what counts as action research, it is now considered an acceptable and useful part of mainstream research practice.
Author : R.A. Logan,E.R. Siegel
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781614997900
While health literacy is a relatively new multidisciplinary field, it is vital to the successful engagement with and communication of health with patients, caregivers, and the public. This book ‘New Directions in Health Literacy Research, Theory, and Practice’ provides an introduction to health literacy research and practice and highlights similar scholarship in related disciplines. The book is organized as follows: the first chapter explains the still-evolving definition of health literacy; the next three chapters discuss developments and new directions in health literacy research, then a further two chapters are devoted to developments and new directions in health literacy theory. Two chapters explore health literacy interventions for vulnerable populations; four chapters cover health literacy leadership efforts; six chapters describe developments and new directions in disciplines that are similar to health literacy; and six chapters portray diverse health literacy practices. A preface from Richard Carmona M.D., the former U.S. Surgeon General, is included in the book. Although the book is intended primarily for health literacy researchers, practitioners and students, the diverse topics and approaches covered will be of interest to all healthcare and public health researchers, practitioners, and students, as well as scholars in related fields, such as health communication, science communication, consumer health informatics, library science, health disparities, and mass communication. As Dr. Carmona concludes in his preface: ‘This is essential reading for all health practitioners.’
Author : Michael Breen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317876953
Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use. What the learner contributes is central to the language learning process. Learner Contributions to Language Learning provides a uniquely comprehensive account of learners' personal attributes, their thinking, their feelings, and their actions that have been shown to have an impact upon language learning. Containing specific chapters from leading names in the field, this book provides both a review of what has been discovered from previous research and identifies important future directions for research on learner contributions. It is a landmark volume setting the agenda for language learning research in the 21st century and it provides invaluable information for all those engaged in language teaching. The contributors to the volume are- Michael P. Breen Bonny Norton Anna Chamot Rebecca Oxford Rod Ellis Anna Pavlenko James P. Lantolf Anita Wenden Diane Larsen-Freeman
Author : Meredith I. Honig
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791481431
Provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of contemporary research in education policy implementation. A companion to Allan R. Odden’s Education Policy Implementation, also published by SUNY Press, this book presents original work by a new generation of scholars contributing to education policy implementation research. The contributors define education policy implementation as the product of the interaction among particular policies, people, and places. Their analyses of previous generations of implementation research reveal that contemporary findings not only build directly on lessons learned from the past, but also seek to deepen past findings. These contemporary researchers also break from the past by seeking a more nuanced, contingent, and rigorous theory-based explication of how implementation unfolds. They argue that researchers and practitioners can help improve education policy implementation by not asking simply what works, but rather focusing their attention on what works, for whom, where, when, and why. Meredith I. Honig is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle.
Author : Sean Esbjörn-Hargens,Jonathan Reams,Olen Gunnlaugson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438433509
Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an integral perspective.