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Direct linkMausethagen, Sølvi; Raaen, Finn Daniel – Teacher Development, 2017
This article presents a microanalysis of how a group of primary school teachers deals with research evidence in their work. Based on analysis of a group of Norwegian teachers' interactions over issues of educational research and research-based knowledge, we find that teachers' representations of educational research particularly center on the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Research
Quiñones, Sandra – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
Metaphors can be used in qualitative research to illuminate the meanings of participant experiences and examine phenomena from insightful and creative perspectives. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how I utilized "trenzas" (braids) as a metaphorical and analytical tool for understanding the experiences and perspectives of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Qualitative Research, Epistemology, Feminism
Richard, Veronica M.; Lahman, Maria K. E. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015
In this methodological discussion, the authors detail and reflect on the processes of using photo-elicitation interviewing as a way to align with positive qualitative methodologies, to gain access to participant beliefs and values, and to highlight participant voices through their choices of words and visuals. A review of the literature and an…
Descriptors: Photography, Interviews, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
Price, Fiona – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This paper examines the way Higher Education (HE) students use metaphors to make tangible the lived and living experience of learning. The article provides a contemporary development of the ethnographic paradigm by offering a new model termed "proximal ethnography" to capture the sense of inside-out-inside research, of being what one has…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Higher Education, Figurative Language, College Students
Buaraphan, Khajornsak – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
Beliefs are a complex psychological construct that have potential to drive a person to make decisions and act. A person's metaphors can serve as roots of their beliefs. In this study, the metaphor construction task (MCT) was utilized to uncover beliefs about teaching and learning held by 216 educational supervisors from 10 provinces in the central…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Beliefs, Supervisors
Download full textBell, Anne – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
In this paper I present a narrative approach to environmental education research. This approach evolved through a dynamic interplay between research questions, theory, experience, conversation, and reflection. I situate the approach with respect to narrative inquiry and clarify the key conceptual metaphors underpinning my study, including…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Research Methodology, Figurative Language, Writing (Composition)
