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Teachers as Researchers (Classic Edition): Qualitative inquiry as a path to empowerment book cover

1st Edition

Teachers as Researchers (Classic Edition) Qualitative inquiry as a path to empowerment

By Joe Kincheloe Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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Teachers as Researchers urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves. Teachers are 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... Read more

Foreword Shirley R. Steinberg  1. Introduction: Positivistic Standards and the Bizarre Educational World of the Twenty-first Century  2. Teachers as Researchers, Good Work and Troubled Times  3. Connecting Knower and Known: Constructing an Emancipating System of Meanin4. Exploring Assumptions Behind Education Research - Defining Positivism in a Neo-Positivist Era  5. What constitutes knowledge?  6. Purposes of Research: the Concept of Instrumental Rationality  7. The Quest for Certainty  8. Verifiability and the Concept of Rigor in Qualitative Research  9. The Value of the Qualitative Dimension  10. Values, Objectivity, and Ideology  11. The Foundations of Teacher Research: A Sample Syllabus

Biography

Joe L. Kincheloe was a Canada Research Chair and founder of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy.

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