2nd Edition

Living the Questions A Guide for Teacher-Researchers

By Ruth Shagoury, Brenda Miller Power Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Teacher research is an extension of good teaching, observing students closely, analyzing their needs, and adjusting the curriculum to fit the needs of all. In this completely updated second edition of their definitive work, Ruth Shagoury and Brenda Miller Power present a framework for teacher research along with an extensive collection of narratives from teachers engaged in the process of... Read more
1: Why Teacher Research?; 2: Questions Evolving; 3: Research Designs; 4: Harvesting Data; 5: What Likes What? Data Analysis; 6: Citing a Tea Bag: When Researchers Read; 7: Honest Labor: Writing Up Research; Sustaining Research: Building and Extending Research Communities; Epilogue Why Not Teacher Research?

Biography

Ruth Shagoury (PhD, University of New Hampshire) is the Mary Stuart Rogers Professor of Education at Lewis & Clark College. She works with students of all ages (from preschool through adult learning), teaching in classrooms as well as conducting workshops across the United States and Canada. Her current research is focused on language and literacy acquisition with diverse student populations. She is the author of several books, and her articles about literacy, research, and teaching have appeared in numerous journals. Brenda Power taught for many years at the University of Maine, before leaving in 2002 for full-time work as a senior editor for Stenhouse Publishers. She founded Choice Literacy, a multimedia professional development resource for teachers, in 2006.