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Seeking for the Unwelcome Truths: Beyond Celebration in Inquiry-Based Teacher Professional Learning
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Mockler, Nicole; Groundwater-Smith, Susan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This paper seeks to interrupt the dominant discourse of action research that emphasises the celebration of achievements, paying less attention to the "unwelcome truths" that can sometimes be revealed. Building on our work in supporting inservice teacher professional learning thorough practitioner research in contexts such as the…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Inquiry, Reflection
Constructing Intercultural Knowledge and Understanding through Collaborative Action Research
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Somekh, Bridget – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
Action researchers frequently find themselves caught in a tension between the need to generate actionable, useful knowledge as an outcome of publicly funded research and the necessity to recognize that knowledge can only be actionable, and useful in that sense, if it is locally and culturally specific. This paper directly addresses this tension…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cultural Awareness, Research Methodology, Organizational Change