Self-study of practice as a genre of qualitative research: theory, methodology, and practice

Teacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries. Our greatest potential for influence is through developing relationships with others in our practice. Our work is fundamentally relational and emotional.We are obligated to the teachers we teach and the public students they teach.Our practice exists in the midst of experience, conflicting and often hostileboundaries, and between what we know from research and what we understand from practice. Self-study of practice invites researchers to embrace the hectic and fragmented territory of practice as the space for study. This book educatesthose who would like to explore practice in the methodology of self-study. Itprovides both a pragmatic and theoretic guide. It grounds the research in ontology and establishes dialogue as the inquiry process. It supports researchersthrough the use of frameworks to guide research and explication of strategiesfor conducting it. Explains how to conduct research projects in practice fromthe perspective of the self Combines theoretical background on different research paradigms with practical guidance in developing self-study of practice

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9511-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés