A Handbook for Teacher Research

by Lankshear, Colin; Knobel, Michele

• ISBN13: 9780335210640
• ISBN10: 0335210643
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

"This informative book helped me to understand research in general and to bring focus and clarity to my current research project. The text answers questions and provides guidance and support in a manner that is user-friendly and easy to comprehend.... After reading this book, I feel empowered as a teacher-researcher and would unhesitatingly recommend it to other teacher-researchers, graduate students and educators."Francesca Crowther teacher and doctoral student, Nova Scotia, Canada.This book provides a comprehensive and detailed approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five requirements for all kinds of research, and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to use in conducting their own classroom-based studies.Features: A clear definition of teacher research which insists on more than 'stories' and anecdotal 'retrospectives' Innovative organisational structure based on the collection and analysis of spoken, written and observed data, with strong emphasis on the design of research projects Easy-to-use and widely applicable tools and techniques for collecting and analysing data in qualitative research Informed by the authors' own wide-ranging experiences, A Handbook of Teacher Research provides everything the teacher researcher needs in order to conduct good quality practitioner research. It is ideal for upper level undergraduate Education programmes and for postgraduate research, as well as for teacher researchers who conceive and drive their own independent studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Part 1: A general background to teacher research as practice
1 An introduction to teacher research	3	(21)
2 Teacher research as systematic inquiry	24	(16)
3 Formulating our research purposes: problems, questions, aims and objectives	40	(14)
4 General approaches to teacher research	54	(24)
5 Informing the study: some key aspects of reviewing literature	78	(23)
6 Ethics and teacher research	101	(16)
Part 2: Introduction to teacher research as document-based and quantitative investigation
7 An introduction to teacher research as document-based investigation	117	(27)
8 An introduction to teacher research as quantitative investigation	144	(27)
Part 3: Teacher research as qualitative investigation
9 A background to data collection in qualitative teacher research	171	(23)
10 Collecting spoken data in qualitative teacher research	194	(25)
11 Collecting observed data in qualitative teacher research	219	(27)
12 Collecting written data in qualitative teacher research	246	(20)
13 Analysing spoken data in qualitative teacher research	266	(35)
14 Analysing observed data in qualitative teacher research	301	(28)
15 Analysing written data in qualitative teacher research	329	(30)
Part 4: Research quality and reporting
16 Quality and reporting in teacher research	359	(16)
Bibliography	375	(18)
Name Index	393	(3)
Subject Index	396