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Teachers as researchers : qualitative inquiry as a path to empowerment / Joe L. Kincheloe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Teachers' library (London, England)Publication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (vi, 296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203164334
  • 9780203164334
  • 0203497317
  • 9780203497319
  • 9786610316656
  • 6610316651
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Teachers as researchers.DDC classification:
  • 370/.78073 21
LOC classification:
  • LB1028.25.U6 K56 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction: Positivistic Standards and the Bizarre Educational World of the Twenty-first Century -- Ch. 2. Teachers as Researchers, Good Work, and Troubled Times -- Ch. 3. Connecting Knower and Known: Constructing an Emancipating System of Meaning -- Ch. 4. Exploring Assumptions Behind Educational Research: Defining Positivism in a Neo-Positivist Era -- Ch. 5. What Constitutes Knowledge? -- Ch. 6. Purposes of Research: The Concept of Instrumental Rationality -- Ch. 7. The Quest for Certainty -- Ch. 8. Verifiability and the Concept of Rigor in Qualitative Research -- Ch. 9. The Value of the Qualitative Dimension.
Ch. 10. Values, Objectivity and Ideology -- Ch. 11. The Foundations of Teacher Research: A Sample Syllabus.
Review: "This book urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves." "Teachers are now being encouraged to carry out research in order to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, but this book suggests that they also reflect on and challenge the reductionist and technicist methods that promote a 'top-down' system of education. The author, a leading proponent of qualitative research, argues that only by engaging in complex, critical research will teachers rediscover their professional status, empower their practice in the classroom and improve the quality of education for their pupils."Summary: "Postgraduate students of education and experienced teachers will find much to inspire and encourage them in this book. Updated and revised for this new edition, it retains both its clarity and insistence on sound research practice."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279) and indexes.

Print version record.

Ch. 1. Introduction: Positivistic Standards and the Bizarre Educational World of the Twenty-first Century -- Ch. 2. Teachers as Researchers, Good Work, and Troubled Times -- Ch. 3. Connecting Knower and Known: Constructing an Emancipating System of Meaning -- Ch. 4. Exploring Assumptions Behind Educational Research: Defining Positivism in a Neo-Positivist Era -- Ch. 5. What Constitutes Knowledge? -- Ch. 6. Purposes of Research: The Concept of Instrumental Rationality -- Ch. 7. The Quest for Certainty -- Ch. 8. Verifiability and the Concept of Rigor in Qualitative Research -- Ch. 9. The Value of the Qualitative Dimension.

Ch. 10. Values, Objectivity and Ideology -- Ch. 11. The Foundations of Teacher Research: A Sample Syllabus.

"This book urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves." "Teachers are now being encouraged to carry out research in order to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, but this book suggests that they also reflect on and challenge the reductionist and technicist methods that promote a 'top-down' system of education. The author, a leading proponent of qualitative research, argues that only by engaging in complex, critical research will teachers rediscover their professional status, empower their practice in the classroom and improve the quality of education for their pupils."

"Postgraduate students of education and experienced teachers will find much to inspire and encourage them in this book. Updated and revised for this new edition, it retains both its clarity and insistence on sound research practice."--Jacket.

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