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Fitzsimons, Camilla; Dorman, Peter – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
Drawing from extensive experience as community educators, this paper discusses accreditation and its relationship to community development as informed by a cooperative inquiry conducted by tutors. Beginning with our rationale for undertaking the inquiry, it details our approach to community development and the centrality of education within this.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Social Change, Community Education, Community Development
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Agee, Jane – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2009
The reflective and interrogative processes required for developing effective qualitative research questions can give shape and direction to a study in ways that are often underestimated. Good research questions do not necessarily produce good research, but poorly conceived or constructed questions will likely create problems that affect all…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Reflection, Questioning Techniques
Byrne-Jimenez, Monica; Orr, Margaret Terry – Teachers College Press, 2007
This book describes a professional development model for new and experienced principals -- a collaborative leadership inquiry seminar. The authors combine existing models of structured professional conversations about education into an on-going leadership development experience that will work in large, urban school districts. They examine how to…
Descriptors: Seminars, Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Schools