Writing As A Method For The Self Study Of Practice

Author : Julian Kitchen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811624988

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Writing as a Method for the Self-Study of Practice by Julian Kitchen Pdf

This book focuses on the writing process in the self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It addresses writing as an area in which teacher educators can develop their skills and represents how to write in ways that are compatible with self-study's orientations towards the inquiry, both personal and on practice. The book examines effective self-study writing with chapters written by experienced self-study practitioners. In addition to considering elements of writing as a method for the self-study of practice, it delves into the cognitive processes of real writers making explicit their writing practices. Practical suggestions are connected to the lived experiences of self-study practitioners making sense of their field through the process of writing. This book will be of interest to doctoral and novice self-study writers, and experienced authors seeking to develop their practice. It demonstrates that writing as a method of inquiry in self-study and beyond can be learned, modeled and taught.

Author : Deborah Tidwell,Melissa Heston,Linda Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402095146

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Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice by Deborah Tidwell,Melissa Heston,Linda Fitzgerald Pdf

This is a book designed with the teacher educator in mind. It provides in depth examination of specific methods used effectively in self-study research. The chapters are written by researchers engaged in self-study of their practice.

Author : Brandon M. Butler,Jason K. Ritter
Publisher : IAP
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798887304984

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Professional Learning Journeys of Teacher Educators by Brandon M. Butler,Jason K. Ritter Pdf

It is clear that teacher educators have ongoing professional learning and development needs. Chief among these are continuing to learn about content developments and pedagogical practices useful for teaching a range of PK-12 students in varying contexts; developing reflective competencies and sets of practices useful for teaching teacher candidates about teaching; effectively balancing teaching commitments with institutional expectations for scholarship and service; and forging useful understandings of identity across the spectrum of teacher educator responsibility and development over time, including taking on managerial or administrative roles. Working in institutions largely devoid of formal support mechanisms, teacher educators are often left on their own to meet these needs and subsequently must create or seek out opportunities for their ongoing growth. This volume explores in greater depth how exactly teacher educators engage in professional learning and development across their career trajectories. University-based teacher educator learning occurs in a range of settings and across the career span. Contributors to this volume describe university-based teacher educator learning spaces focused on their ongoing professional learning. Such spaces include teacher educator communities of practice, critical friendships, self-study learning groups, faculty learning groups, co-mentoring, and institutionally sponsored professional learning spaces.

Author : Brandon M. Butler,Shawn Michael Bullock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811626814

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Learning through Collaboration in Self-Study by Brandon M. Butler,Shawn Michael Bullock Pdf

Self-study is inherently collaborative. Such collaboration provides transparency, validity, rigor and trustworthiness in conducting self-study. However, the ways in which these collaborations are enacted have not been sufficiently addressed in the self-study literature. This book addresses these gaps in the literature by placing critical friendship, collaborative self-study and community of practice at the forefront of the self-study of teaching. It highlights these forms of collaboration, how the collaboration was developed and enacted, the challenges and tensions that existed in the collaboration, and how practice and identity developed through the use of these forms of collaboration. The chapters serve as exemplars of enacting these forms of collaboration and provide researchers with an additional base of literature to draw upon in their scholarly writing, teaching of self-study, and their enactment of collaborative self-study spaces.

Author : Jason D. DeHart,Peaches Hash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000998269

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Arts-Based Research Across Textual Media in Education by Jason D. DeHart,Peaches Hash Pdf

In company with its sister volume, Arts-Based Research Across Textual Media in Education explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, from a variety of geographic locations and across a range of subdisciplines within the field of education. This first volume takes a textual focus, capturing process, poetic, and dramaturgical approaches. The authors aim to highlight some of the approaches that are not always centered in arts-based research. The contributors represent a variety of arts-based practices and methods, and they weave this marrying of artistic and scientific expertise and experience into the fabric of the chapters themselves. Authors from international contexts speak to the importance of utilizing artistic approaches for research processes. From multimodal field notes to poetic forms to the dramaturgical, chapters in this book represent steps forward in educational inquiry to bringing together both the creative and credible. The book includes multiple images and rich descriptions shared from the field. This first volume covers amongst other topics: co-created narratives, creative fiction in research, analytic portraits, dramatic representation, and critical poetic inquiry. It would be suitable for graduate students and scholars interested in qualitative inquiry and arts-based methods, in education and the social sciences.

Author : J. John Loughran,Mary Lynn Hamilton,Vicki Kubler LaBoskey,Tom L. Russell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1541 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402065453

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International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices by J. John Loughran,Mary Lynn Hamilton,Vicki Kubler LaBoskey,Tom L. Russell Pdf

The International Handbook on Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices is of interest to teacher educators, teacher researchers and practitioner researchers. This volume: -offers an encyclopaedic review of the field of self-study; -examines in detail self-study in a range of teaching and teacher education contexts; -outlines a full understanding of the nature and development of self-study; -explores the development of a professional knowledge base for teaching through self-study; -purposefully represents self-study through research and practice; -illustrates examples of self-study in teaching and teacher education.

Author : Dawn Garbett,Alan Ovens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319394787

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Being Self-Study Researchers in a Digital World by Dawn Garbett,Alan Ovens Pdf

This book presents research on the intersection of self-study research, digital technologies, and the development of future-oriented practices in teacher education. It explores the changing teacher education landscape by considering issues that are central to doing self-study: context and location; data access, generation and analysis; social and personal media; forms and transformations of pedagogy; identity; and ethics in an increasingly digital world. Self-study research on, with, and around digital technologies is highly significant in education where the rapid development and ubiquity of such technologies are an integral part of teacher educators’ everyday pedagogical and research practices. Blended and virtual environments are now not only commonplaces in which to teach about teaching but also to research about teaching. The book highlights how digital technologies can enhance the pedagogies and knowledge base of teacher education research and practice while remaining circumspect of grandiose claims. Each chapter addresses aspects of doing self-study with educational technology, and provides issues for discussion and debate for readers wanting to engage in self-study.

Author : Mary F. Rice
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031580970

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Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practice Online by Mary F. Rice Pdf

Author : Anastasia P. Samaras
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452211817

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Self-Study Teacher Research by Anastasia P. Samaras Pdf

The first textbook to offer novice and experienced teachers guidelines for the "how" and "why" of self-study teacher research Designed to help pre- and in-service teachers plan, implement, and assess a manageable self-study research project, this unique textbook covers the foundation, history, theoretical underpinnings, and methods of self-study research. Author Anastasia Samaras encourages readers to think deeply about both the "how" and the "why" of this essential professional development tool as they pose questions and formulate personal theories to improve professional practice. Written in a reader-friendly style and filled with interactive activities and examples, the book helps teachers every step of the way as they learn and refine research skills; conduct a literature review; design a research study; work in validation groups; collect and analyze data; interpret findings; develop skills in peer critique and review; and write, present, and publish their studies. Key Features A Self-Study Project Planner assists teachers in understanding both the details and process of conducting self-study research. A Critical Friends Portfolio includes innovative critical collaborative inquiries to support the completion of a high quality final research project. Advice from the most senior self-study academics working in the U.S. and internationally is included, along with descriptions of the self-study methodology that has been refined over time. Examples demonstrate the connections between self-study research, teachers' professional growth, and their students' learning. Tables, charts, and visuals help readers see the big picture and stay organized.

Author : Claudia Mitchell,Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon,Sandra Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134426270

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Just Who Do We Think We Are? by Claudia Mitchell,Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon,Sandra Weber Pdf

Drawing upon diverse and specific examples of self-study, described here by the practitioners themselves, this unique book formulates a methodological framework for self-study in education. This collection brings together a diverse and international range of self-studies carried out in teacher education, each of which has a different perspective to offer on issues of method and methodology, including: * memory work * fictional practice * collaborative autobiography * auto-ethnography * phenomenology * image-based approaches. Such ethical issues likely to arise from self-study as informed consent, self-disclosure and crises of representation are also explored with depth and clarity. As method takes centre stage in educational and social scientific research, and self-study becomes a key tool for research, training, practice and professional development in education, Just Who Do We Think We Are? provides an invaluable resource for anyone undertaking this form of practitioner research.

Author : Stefinee Pinnegar,Mary Lynn Hamilton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402095122

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Self-Study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research by Stefinee Pinnegar,Mary Lynn Hamilton Pdf

Teacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries. Our greatest potential for influence is through developing relationships with others in our practice. Our work is fundamentally relational and emotional. We are obligated to the teachers we teach and the public students they teach. Our practice exists in the midst of experience, conflicting and often hostile boundaries, and between what we know from research and what we understand from practice. Self-study of practice invites researchers to embrace the hectic and fragmented territory of practice as the space for study. This book educates those who would like to explore practice in the methodology of self-study. It provides both a pragmatic and theoretic guide. It grounds the research in ontology and establishes dialogue as the inquiry process. It supports researchers through the use of frameworks to guide research and explication of strategies for conducting it.

Author : Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan,Anastasia P. Samaras
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463002202

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Polyvocal Professional Learning through Self-Study Research by Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan,Anastasia P. Samaras Pdf

"Polyvocal Professional Learning through Self-Study Research illustrates the power of “we” for innovative and authentic professional learning. The 33 contributors to this book include experienced and emerging self-study researchers, writing in collaboration, across multiple professions, academic disciplines, contexts, and continents. These authors have noted and reviewed each other’s chapters and adapted their contributions to generate a polyvocal conversation that significantly advances scholarship on professional learning through self-study research. Building on, and extending, the existing body of work on self-study research, the book offers an extensive and in-depth scholarly exploration of the how, why, and impact of professional learning through context-specific, practitioner-led inquiry. The chapters illustrate polyvocal professional learning as both phenomenon and method, with the original research that is presented in every chapter adding to the forms of methodological inventiveness that have been developed and documented within the self-study research community.“This unique book represents an inspiring step forward in self-study research. Authors from various continents provide evidence of how the “I” can be strengthened through the “we” perspective, showing convincingly how polyvocality, transdisciplinarity, and an intercultural approach deepen professional learning. This powerful book offers important new insights for the methodology of self-study, with an impact beyond teachers and teacher educators.”Fred A. J. Korthagen, Professor Emeritus at Utrecht University, The Netherlands“A fascinating set of chapters illustrate the importance of many lenses and many voices when studying one’s practice. Each chapter testifies that self-study and its ties to improvement through posing thoughtful questions, collecting and analyzing relevant data, and interrogating the interpretation of one’s analysis of self are global and cross-disciplinary. This book is a must-read!”Renée T. Clift, Professor and Associate Dean, University of Arizona, USA"

Author : Julian Kitchen,Deborah Tidwell,Linda Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463005340

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Self-Study and Diversity II by Julian Kitchen,Deborah Tidwell,Linda Fitzgerald Pdf

Self-Study and Diversity II is a book about the self-study of teacher education practices in a diverse world. In this volume, the authors examine the preparation of teachers through a shared orientation to diversity grounded in a commitment to addressing issues of identity, equity, diversity, social justice, inclusion, and access in their professional practice. The first chapters are autobiographical studies in which teacher educators reflect on how their personal identities as minorities within a historically oppressive culture inform their professional practice. These powerful narratives are followed by accounts of teacher educators addressing diversity issues in the United Arab Emirates, India, South Africa, and Thailand. The closing chapters attend to the challenges of preparing teacher candidates to become inclusive educators in a diverse world. Even though each chapter focusses on a particular dimension of equity and social justice or dilemma of practice, the insights in these self-studies are relevant to all teacher educators interested in improving teacher education by respecting diversity and becoming more inclusive. Particular strengths are the diversity of authors and international scope of the book.

Author : Jason K. Ritter,Mieke Lunenberg,Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan,Anastasia P. Samaras,Eline Vanassche
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811081057

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Teaching, Learning, and Enacting of Self-Study Methodology by Jason K. Ritter,Mieke Lunenberg,Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan,Anastasia P. Samaras,Eline Vanassche Pdf

This book offers a collection of original, peer-reviewed studies by scholars working to develop a knowledge base of teaching and facilitating self-study research methodology. Further, it details and interconnects perspectives and experiences of new self-study researchers and their facilitators, in self-study communities in different countries and across different continents. Offering a broad range of perspectives and contexts, it opens up possibilities for encouraging the collaborative and continuous growth of teaching and facilitating self-study research within and beyond the field of teacher education. The breadth of the scholarship presented expands scholarly discussions concerning designing, representing, and theorising self-study research in response to pressing educational and social questions. By documenting and understanding what teaching and learning self-study looks like in different contexts and what factors might influence its enactment, the book contributes to building a kaleidoscopic knowledge base of self-study research. Overall, this book demonstrates the impact on participants' professional learning and validates the authenticity and generative professional applications of self-study methodology for and beyond teacher education, providing implications and recommendations for practitioners on a global level.

Author : Anastasia P. Samaras
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506332550

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Self-Study Teacher Research by Anastasia P. Samaras Pdf

The first textbook to offer novice and experienced teachers guidelines for the "how" and "why" of self-study teacher research Designed to help pre- and in-service teachers plan, implement, and assess a manageable self-study research project, this unique textbook covers the foundation, history, theoretical underpinnings, and methods of self-study research. Author Anastasia Samaras encourages readers to think deeply about both the "how" and the "why" of this essential professional development tool as they pose questions and formulate personal theories to improve professional practice. Written in a reader-friendly style and filled with interactive activities and examples, the book helps teachers every step of the way as they learn and refine research skills; conduct a literature review; design a research study; work in validation groups; collect and analyze data; interpret findings; develop skills in peer critique and review; and write, present, and publish their studies. Key Features A Self-Study Project Planner assists teachers in understanding both the details and process of conducting self-study research. A Critical Friends Portfolio includes innovative critical collaborative inquiries to support the completion of a high quality final research project. Advice from the most senior self-study academics working in the U.S. and internationally is included, along with descriptions of the self-study methodology that has been refined over time. Examples demonstrate the connections between self-study research, teachers' professional growth, and their students' learning. Tables, charts, and visuals help readers see the big picture and stay organized.