ED378189 SP035714
Title: Studying Your Own School. An Educator's Guide to Qualitative
Practitioner Research.
Author(s): Anderson, Gary L.; And Others
Pages: 227
Publication Date: 1994
Notes: Back cover may not reproduce well.
ISBN: 0-8039-6114-6
Available from: EDRS Price MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from
EDRS.
Availability: Corwin Press, Inc., 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks,
CA 91320.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Guides--Non-classroom (055); Reports--Descriptive
(141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; California
Journal Announcement: RIEMAY1995
Target Audience: Teachers; Practitioners; Researchers
Over the past
decade there has been a substantive change in the role of practitioners
in educational research. Grassroots efforts in action research highlight
the importance of educators' own understanding of their practice.
This book, which stems from a school-university collaboration, describes
the theory and methods for conducting "action-oriented,"
qualitative practitioner research and guides educators through the
research process. The volume is organized into six chapters. The
first chapter offers a definition of action research and lays out
a series of assumptions. Chapter 2 reviews various ways that practitioner
research has manifested itself in different times and social contexts
and provides a sense of epistemological and political issues. Chapter
3 discusses current approaches to action-oriented research
and summarizes a variety of studies. Chapter 4 provides a process-oriented
narrative of a 3-year practitioner research study. The fifth chapter
provides a user-friendly guide to qualitative methods and indicates
how practitioners modify them to meet constraints and opportunities
encountered in their schools. The final chapter examines some ways
in which practitioner researchers are pushing the edges of what
currently "counts" as research. Contains 224 references.
(LL)
Descriptors: *Action Research; *College School Cooperation; *Educational
Research; *Educational Researchers; Elementary School Teachers;
Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; *Research Methodology;
Research Opportunities; Secondary School Teachers
Identifiers: *Teacher Researchers
