1st Edition

From Practice to Praxis: A reflexive turn The selected works of Susan Groundwater-Smith

By Susan Groundwater-Smith Copyright 2017
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

From Practice to Praxis is an exploration of the development of ethical practice as it applies to the meaning of quality within the tradition of practitioner inquiry and participatory research. Chronicling some of her most important works, this is a compelling overview of Susan Groundwater-Smith’s contribution to the evolution of the nexus between thinking and theory as it stands between the... Read more

Introduction 1. Moving to praxis: Reading the readings 2. The interrogation of case records as a basis for constructing curriculum perspectives 3. Credential bearing enquiry-based courses: paradox or new challenge 4. Putting teacher professional judgment to work 5. Painting the Landscape with Tea: Revisiting Becoming Critical 6. My Professional Self: Two books, a person and my bedside table 7. Professional Knowledge Formation in the Australian Educational Market Place: Changing the Perspective 8. Questions of quality in practitioner research: Universities in the 21st Century, a safe place for unsafe idea 9. Student voice: essential testimony for intelligent schools 10. Ethics in Practitioner Research: an issue of Quality 11. Cooperative Change Management through Practitioner Inquiry 12. Learning outside the classroom: a partnership with a difference 13. Living ethical practice in qualitative research 14. Concerning Equity: The Voice of Young People 15. Weaving a web of professional practice: The Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools 16. Mentoring teacher inquiry: Lessons in lesson study 17. Why Global Policies Fail Disengaged Young People at the Local Level

Biography

Susan Groundwater-Smith is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. She has over fifty years of teaching and academic experience in both mainstream and special education.