Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith /

Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student vo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mockler, Nicole (Editor), Sachs, Judyth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Series:Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; 7
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword, Jennifer Nias
  • Nicole Mockler & Judyth Sachs, Rethinking educational practice through reflexive inquiry: An introduction
  • Part 1: Practitioner Inquiry
  • Stephen Kemmis, A self-reflective practitioner and a new definition of critical participatory action research
  • Bridget Somekh, Localization or globalization? The dynamic variations of action research
  • Petra Ponte and Jan Ax, Inquiry-based professional learning in educational praxis: knowing why, what and how
  • Michael Fielding, Patterns of partnership: student voice, intergenerational learning and democratic fellowship
  • Lynda Kelly & Pauline Fitzgerald, Cooperation, collaboration, challenge: how to work with the changing nature of educational audiences in museums
  • Greg Elliott, Creating spaces for practitioner research: Strategic leadership to create a third space for practitioner enquiry in an authentic professional learning community
  • John Furlong, The English Masters in Teaching and Learning: a new arena for practitioner inquiry?
  • Part 2: Teachers’ Work and Learning
  • Nicole Mockler, Becoming and ‘being’ a teacher: understanding teacher professional identity
  • Anne Campbell, Connecting inquiry and professional learning: creating the conditions for authentic, sustained learning
  • Judyth Sachs, Skilling or emancipating? Metaphors for continuing teacher professional development
  • Colleen McLaughlin, Towards an ecology of teacher collaboration on research.-Jane Hunter & Jane Mitchell, The insider and outsider model of professional learning
  • Kris Needham, Professional learning in an across school network: an epidemic of passion?.-Phillipa Cordingley, Extending connections: linking support for teachers engaging in and using research with what’s known about teacher learning and development
  • Bob Lingard, Changing Teachers’ Work in Australia
  • Postscripts, Susan Groundwater-Smith, Vale Shirley Grundy
  • Nicole Mockler & Judyth Sachs, A final word.