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Biografisk notat
Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University, Australia, Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Adjunct Teacher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.This book provides a comprehensive and detailed approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five requirements for all kinds of research, and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to use in conducting their own classroom-based studies.
Features:
- A clear definition of teacher research which insists on more than ‘stories’ and anecdotal ‘retrospectives’
- Innovative organisational structure based on the collection and analysis of spoken, written and observed data, with strong emphasis on the design of research projects
- Easy-to-use and widely applicable tools and techniques for collecting and analysing data in qualitative research
1.An introduction to teacher research
2.Teacher research as systematic inquiry
3.Formulating our research purposes: Problems, questions, aims and objectives
4.General approaches to teacher research
5.Informing the study: some key aspects of reviewing literature
6.Ethics and teacher research
Part 2: Introduction to teacher research as document-based and quantitative investigation
7.An introduction to teacher research as document-based investigation
8.An introduction to teacher research as quantitative investigation
Part 3: Teacher research as qualitative investigation
9.A background to data collection in qualitative teacher research
10.Collecting spoken data in qualitative teacher research
11.Collecting observed data in qualitative teacher research
12.Collecting written data in qualitative teacher research
13.Analyzing spoken data in qualitative teacher research
14.Analyzing observed data in qualitative teacher research
15.Analyzing written data in qualitative teacher research
Part 4: Research quality and reporting
16.Quality and reporting in teacher research
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