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Full-Text Articles in Education
Mentoring In Higher Education: A Self Study Of Faculty Socialization, Nancy Dubetz, Steve Turley
Mentoring In Higher Education: A Self Study Of Faculty Socialization, Nancy Dubetz, Steve Turley
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Most professors typically have little formal preparation for their careers in academe and thus learn their craft by doing. Often those who seek support during this process look to experienced colleagues to mentor them. Mentoring, as experienced by most new faculty, tends to be individual, informal, and random. The role of the mentor for new faculty is often assumed by the department chair, though some junior faculty report that they use multiple mentors to help them with their varied responsibilities in teaching, scholarship, and university service. The mentor initiates the new faculty member into the customs and expectations of academic …
Combining Case Study Research And Critical Reflection In Foreign/Second Language Methodology, Marjorie Hall Haley
Combining Case Study Research And Critical Reflection In Foreign/Second Language Methodology, Marjorie Hall Haley
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
To date very little has been written about how foreign and second language teachers experience their pre-service teaching internships and the implications of these experiences on the quality of foreign and second language instruction in the US in K-12 settings. This article presents the case study of one student teacher intern involved in his 15-week experience in a linguistically and culturally diverse secondary school setting and how his case was used in a foreign/second language methodology course. It examines the extent and nature of the student's critical reflections in determining the basis of sound methodological and pedagogical approaches to second …
The Role Of Leadership In Action Research, Thomas G. Ryan
The Role Of Leadership In Action Research, Thomas G. Ryan
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The image of a leader is often one of standing alone or above a number of followers. I rejected this traditional image and preferred to stand with others as I led fellow educators through a recent practical action research study. As we began our study the newness of each conversation and the resultant energy made leading somewhat confusing and invisible. Yet, the task of leading was something I could feel every time I looked into a group memberís face. At times the mental replay of this act of looking was a haunting memory and other times it was a source …
Book Review: M. Elizabeth Graue And Daniel J. Walsh (1998). Studying Children In Context: Theories, Methods, And Ethics.Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Cathy Compton-Lilly
Book Review: M. Elizabeth Graue And Daniel J. Walsh (1998). Studying Children In Context: Theories, Methods, And Ethics.Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Cathy Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Garth Boomer once wrote, "To deliberately learn is to research." As a teacher, I know that most teachers are constantly involved in processes of deliberate learning. We learn about our students. We gain insights on how to present particular topics. We experiment with new ideas and we constantly assess and reevaluate our students alongside our teaching. During the last decades of the twentieth century the term "research has been expanded to include many of the activities that are routine to teachers such as student assessment, teacher self-reflection, documentation of classroom events, and student observation. Current thinking has redefined teaching as …
Book Review: Frank, Carolyn (1999) Ethnographic Eyes: A Teacher's Guide To Classroom Observation. Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Heinemann., Cathy Compton-Lilly
Book Review: Frank, Carolyn (1999) Ethnographic Eyes: A Teacher's Guide To Classroom Observation. Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Heinemann., Cathy Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
What might it mean for teachers to have "ethnographic eyes? Ethnography is generally defined as the study of culture. With teachers' eyes and attention focused on the cultures they encounter and help to create, teachers may find themselves learning about their students and rethinking their assumptions about teaching. Becoming an ethnographer provides teachers with an opportunity not only to learn the practices and procedures of teaching, but also to observe and make sense of their classroom observations and experiences.
The Irb, The Hsr -- And The Ethics Of Insider Research, Jane Zeni
The Irb, The Hsr -- And The Ethics Of Insider Research, Jane Zeni
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This project began about eight years ago when I tried adapt the mandated "human subjects review" (HSR) by my university's Institutional Review Board (IRB) to the work I was doing as a researcher of my own practice and as a consultant to K-12 teacher researchers. After many roadblocks and revisions, I produced a guide intended, not for IRB review, but for discussion in action research groups and dissertation committees. It was first published in Educational Action Research (1998, vol 6, no. 1), then revised and updated as the Epilogue to the new book (Zeni, 2001). Despite its convoluted genealogy, the …
Guest Editor's Introduction: Teacher Research On Classroom Discourse In Northern Canadian Communities, Judith C. Lapadat
Guest Editor's Introduction: Teacher Research On Classroom Discourse In Northern Canadian Communities, Judith C. Lapadat
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This special issue brings together a series of articles written by practitioners in a number of northern communities in British Columbia, all of whom are affiliated with UNBC's graduate program in Curriculum and Instruction. The region they are writing about is large, rugged, and sparsely populated. Prince George, centrally located and the site of the main UNBC campus, has a population of 75,000. There are seven other small cities in the 10,000-20,000 range, and the remainder of the population resides in small towns and villages.
Focusing On Reflection With Early Childhood Practitioners, Anne Lindsay, Ruth Mason
Focusing On Reflection With Early Childhood Practitioners, Anne Lindsay, Ruth Mason
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The purpose of this paper is to describe an action research project in our university childcare centre that focused on the nature of the reflective process. The project originated with the childcare centre director's concern for providing more professional development for her staff. In discussion with the vice-chair of the centre, who was at the time a researcher in early childhood at the university (and also the first author of this paper), ideas emerged that were then discussed with the staff. A graduate student at the university, also an educational practitioner (and the second author of this paper), expressed interest …
Using Math Journals In A Grade 3/4 Classroom, Karen Scales
Using Math Journals In A Grade 3/4 Classroom, Karen Scales
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The purpose of this study was to examine how the use of math journals could facilitate modifications in instructional practice. The specific research questions were: Are math journals an effective diagnostic tool? Do they provide information not already provided through traditional assignments? How can they be used in assessment?
Revoicing Reflections, Ward Pycock
Revoicing Reflections, Ward Pycock
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Serendipitously, I stumbled onto revoicing in an article written by O'Connor and Michaels (1996). I often use a speech sequence called the initiate-respond-evaluate (IRE) pattern without being aware of doing it. Many teachers will recognize it -- you pose a question, nominate a student to respond and when they give you the answer you say "What an excellent answer." I've come to realize, through reflection, the restrictions of this speech sequence. In spite of the fact I might even have had a hot topic in class enthusiastically generated by students, I knew that classroom discourse failed to flourish at times. …
A Teacher Librarian's Initiation Of Literature Circles In An Elementary School: A Refleection On The Process, Anne V. Lyle
A Teacher Librarian's Initiation Of Literature Circles In An Elementary School: A Refleection On The Process, Anne V. Lyle
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Literature Circles, often called Literature Response Groups, Book Clubs and occasionally Transactional Literature Discussions, are an approach to reading instruction in which students read, write and talk about poetry, short stories and whole books. (Lyle, 1999). Through discourse students actively construct meaning by responding to a text and then by reflecting on their responses. This approach, according to Pitman (1997), "allows children to apply their natural socializing tendencies in a productive manner, making learning meaningful and hopefully internalized for additional future learning" (p. 4).
Student-Generated Discussion In The Senior Secondary English Classroom, A.W. Lehmann
Student-Generated Discussion In The Senior Secondary English Classroom, A.W. Lehmann
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The purpose of this research study was to devise and test a method of encouraging, and subsequently managing, student-generated discussion of English literature within a senior secondary classroom. The students would provide not only the discussion itself, but also a "client's-eye" evaluation of the process. Accordingly, students were engaged in part of the initial clarification of the study's purposes and procedures, produced the bulk of the discussion which constituted the content for the method being examined, and provided a post-discussion evaluation which could be compared to earlier comments. A simple qualitative analysis of written comments provided by the students and …
Differential Discourse Patterns In Mainstream Versus First Nations Students In An Adult Basic Education Classroom, Nancy L. Ross
Differential Discourse Patterns In Mainstream Versus First Nations Students In An Adult Basic Education Classroom, Nancy L. Ross
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The purpose of this study was to record and transcribe a lesson conducted in the Initiation-Response-Evaluation (IRE) style, in order to examine the patterns of interaction between teacher and students, focusing on ways in which the teacher differentiates between First Nations and non-First Nations students, and on ways in which their discourse differs. I chose to use one of my own classes, and to examine my own interactions, in order to discover my role in these student-teacher interactions. What differences can be seen in the quantity and quality of student utterances between First Nations and mainstream students? How do I, …
The Curtain Rises: Teachers Unveil Their Processes Of Transformation In Doing Classroom Inquiry, Denise Fischer, Maria Mercado, Vicki Morgan, Lori Robb, Jacquelyn Sheehan-Carr
The Curtain Rises: Teachers Unveil Their Processes Of Transformation In Doing Classroom Inquiry, Denise Fischer, Maria Mercado, Vicki Morgan, Lori Robb, Jacquelyn Sheehan-Carr
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This paper is the joint reflection of a group of teachers on their transformative process of engaging in a systematic inquiry in their own classrooms. While sharing and reconstructing their experiences, they found that most of them went from detachment and resistance, when they were introduced to the idea of teacher-research, to engagement in a community of inquirers, and to uncovering the unforeseen benefits of doing teacher-inquiry.
"Anything Worthwhile Takes Time": Eight Schools Discuss Impacts And Impressions Of Doing Action Research, Janet Benton, Jean Wasco
"Anything Worthwhile Takes Time": Eight Schools Discuss Impacts And Impressions Of Doing Action Research, Janet Benton, Jean Wasco
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During the 1997-1998 school year, eight elementary, middle, and high schools connected with each other and a local university to conduct classroom-based action research, and our goal in these reflections is to examine what the teachers involved in the studies thought about the research process and the possible effects of action research on their students' classroom performances.
Exploring Reading Identity: Urban Parents Defining Themselves As Readers, Catherine Compton-Lilly
Exploring Reading Identity: Urban Parents Defining Themselves As Readers, Catherine Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
As part of a teacher-research study I interviewed ten of my urban first grade students and their parents about reading. One parent, Ms. Webster, referred to people who read a lot as "bookworms" and "bookish people" who "don't have no fun." She explained, "All they do is sit in the house and read books all day long or sit outside and read books. . .
Education As Apprenticeship For Social Action: Composition Instruction, Critical Consciousness, And Engaged Pedagogy, David Alan Sapp
Education As Apprenticeship For Social Action: Composition Instruction, Critical Consciousness, And Engaged Pedagogy, David Alan Sapp
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
As a professional teacher of writing, I see language as one of many locations in which political struggles exist, and the classroom as a site from which my students and I can actively examine culture, developing strategies of language-use that can facilitate social change. Critical and feminist pedagogies are two closely-related ways of teaching from which we can examine socially-created power structures so that society can move towards new ways of thinking and towards a new consciousness. The state of critical consciousness that results from these pedagogies becomes realized when students, studying as apprentices for social action, begin to speak …
Pictures, Dreams, And The Reflexive Educational Reformer, Mark Campbell Williams
Pictures, Dreams, And The Reflexive Educational Reformer, Mark Campbell Williams
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What do pictures, dreams and reflection have to do with educational reform? In this paper I reflect heuristically on a five year study investigating a major teaching reform of a university business computing course. I conducted action research on a raft of teaching innovations designed to introduce communication, discourse, and reflection on broad social and organisational implications of computing rather than merely hardware and software techniques. The main theme was to see if discourse could ameliorate a dominant technicism in the teaching-learning process and curriculum. After three years, I realised that, in my own technicist drive to achieve "success" and …
Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells
Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Once again, this issue features articles by groups of educators who are collaborating to investigate and improve their practice and, in the process, to extend and develop their understanding of the principles underpinning their work. As the increasing number of links to such groups on the Links page attests, collaborative action research is on the increase, as is the number of educators who are experiencing the positive impact it has on their lives.
Book Review: Henry L. Tischler (Ed.) (2000) Debating Points: Race And Ethnic Relations., Young M. Kim
Book Review: Henry L. Tischler (Ed.) (2000) Debating Points: Race And Ethnic Relations., Young M. Kim
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Today's college students seem to care little about many important social issues on the public agenda. Their interest in such issues often appears to be at best minimal and sporadic, and consequently they are more likely to form and express superficial opinions on those matters. One exceptional case is the issue of race. The issue of race matters deeply to students, and most of them know where they stand on it.
A Different Approach To Family Involvement, Leslie Patterson, Shelia Baldwin, Rubén Gonzales, Irma Guadarrama, Liz Keith
A Different Approach To Family Involvement, Leslie Patterson, Shelia Baldwin, Rubén Gonzales, Irma Guadarrama, Liz Keith
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The Houston Chronicle recently quoted a school counselor who blamed low student achievement on parents, whom he called "a bunch of seventh-grade dropouts who can't add 2 plus 2" (Houston Chronicle, 1998, p. 21A). As educators, we see too many of our colleagues play that blame game as we try to respond to increasing public pressure to make schools "work." The logic goes something like this: "We are doing everything we know how, and these children still are not succeeding. If only their parents would (fill in the blank), everything would be just fine."
Review: Teacher Researcher Perspectives On Parent Involvement, Catherine Compton-Lilly
Review: Teacher Researcher Perspectives On Parent Involvement, Catherine Compton-Lilly
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What is happening at your school to foster parent involvement? Where I teach, parent involvement is a constant struggle. Programs that promise to bring parents into the school come and go quickly; they are never well-attended and the parents who do attend the first session often do not return for the second. Teachers, observing this lack of involvement, complain that parents don't care and do not support the school. The rhetoric around our school blames parents when things go wrong for children at school.
Review: Classroom Interviews: A World Of Learning, Catherine Compton-Lilly
Review: Classroom Interviews: A World Of Learning, Catherine Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Garth Boomer once wrote, "To deliberately learn is to research." To Boomer, teachers and students are researchers when they purposely seek to understand aspects of their world. As a first grade teacher, it would be difficult for me to find a day of teaching that did not involve deliberate learning. Each day brings novel inquiries, new questions, and constant reflection on the events that transpire. Hopefully my students share this sense of wonder and interest as they learn to read, write, and research.
A First Step For Technology Integration For Teachers, Rena Cifarelli
A First Step For Technology Integration For Teachers, Rena Cifarelli
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How do I begin to work with teachers on integrating technology into their diverse disciplines? How do I begin to form a relationship that allows them to express their fears about technology and trust in me to overcome those fears? How do I assess their technology strengths and weaknesses so I can help them to begin at a point where they are comfortable with the technology? These were the initial questions I asked myself as a high school educational technologist, who was beginning to embark with a group of four other teachers on an action research project.
A Discourse On Literacy And Community: Research Relationships For Preservice Teachers, Karen Broaddus, David Landis
A Discourse On Literacy And Community: Research Relationships For Preservice Teachers, Karen Broaddus, David Landis
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This written dialogue between two university researchers explores how different forms of preservice teacher inquiry work as active components of language arts coursework in elementary education. We will discuss issues of design and implementation: 1. Theoretical contexts for including research in teacher education 2. Selecting settings for preservice teacher research 3. Defining research tasks 4. Examining professional research relationships 5. Forms for reflection 6. Analyzing research outcomes Our positions will be illustrated using the results of two distinct examples of literacy research: a study exploring the experiences of two preservice teachers conducting individual case studies of literacy development and a …
Preservice Teachers' Experiences Of "America Reads" Research, Penny L. Beed, David Landis, Charline Barnes, Kari Benson, Kim Willms, Amy Zidlicky
Preservice Teachers' Experiences Of "America Reads" Research, Penny L. Beed, David Landis, Charline Barnes, Kari Benson, Kim Willms, Amy Zidlicky
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This article has two purposes. First, we want to make visible the experiences of undergraduate preservice teacher researchers who collaborated with university faculty to conduct three research studies of an America Reads Literacy Tutoring Program. Our second purpose is to offer evidence from the preservice teachers' research logs, comments and reflections that supports or challenges current discussions about the effects of preservice teacher research. The article begins with a brief discussion of the America Reads investigations in which the preservice teachers participated. Next, we discuss the preservice teachers' thoughts about their research experiences. Finally, we explore implications raised by this …
Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells
Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This issue sees a continuation of a strand, begun in the first issue, of articles written by collaborative groups of educators who span the school-university divide. As the authors of all these articles note, when school-based practitioners or preservice teachers in their practicums work together with colleagues in universities they create a synergy that makes ripples - or even waves - beyond their individual classrooms. As they present their work at local or national conferences and publish in venues such as Networks, the value of their work is recognized by others, who are inspired to adopt and adapt their ideas …
An Investigation Of A Qualitative Research Course At A U.S. University, Angela L.E. Walmsley
An Investigation Of A Qualitative Research Course At A U.S. University, Angela L.E. Walmsley
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Action research is typically performed by people who want to do something to improve their own situation (Sagor, 1992). Often, it is also collaborative, involving participants with different roles in the situation; together they plan, analyze data and discuss the results, and then share the findings with others in a similar field or situation who may be able to benefit from them. While action research can be used in a variety of settings, the project I present here is specific to education and teaching. I carried out an action research project that investigated aspects of a graduate qualitative education research …
The Power Of Two: A Study Of The Integrated Reading Method Of Peer Tutoring, Carol S. Fitzpatrick
The Power Of Two: A Study Of The Integrated Reading Method Of Peer Tutoring, Carol S. Fitzpatrick
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issues of design and implementation:
Beginning Teachers Improve Classroom Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry, Barbara H. Davis, Virginia Resta, Karen Miller, Keitha Fortman
Beginning Teachers Improve Classroom Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry, Barbara H. Davis, Virginia Resta, Karen Miller, Keitha Fortman
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"How can I get my students to pay attention to me?" "What will motivate my reluctant readers to read more?" "How can I get my students to work together in cooperative groups?" "Would teaching social skills improve discipline in my classroom?" "How can I get my students to stay on-task and become more productive?" "What can I do to get my at-risk students to produce quality work?" These questions, and others like them, are asked by classroom teachers every year, especially beginning teachers who are encountering the challenges of the classroom for the first time. In recent years many teachers …