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Neethling, Marinda; Nel, Mirna – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article we combine Boyer's 4 domains of scholarship with Hutchings' 4 types of questions and Ghaye, Melander-Wikman, Kisare, Chambers, Bergmark, Kostenius and Lillyman's (2008) reflective learning framework using a Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) method to explore the perceived gap in in-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Education, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Ng, Laura; Carney, Mary A. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
Scholarly personal narrative (SPN) extends the available methodologies by which researchers conduct the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). In this article, the authors define SPN, which interprets personal experience through scholarly frameworks, leveraging the power of reflective practice to understand the interpersonal dynamics of both…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Personal Narratives
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Hepplewhite, K. – Research in Drama Education, 2014
This account discusses "reflective dialogues", a process utilising video to re-examine in-action decision-making with theatre practitioners who operate in community contexts. The reflexive discussions combine with observation, text and digital documentation to offer a sometimes "messy" (from Schön 1987) dynamic to the research…
Descriptors: Drama, Video Technology, Decision Making, Theater Arts
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Stevens, Douglas M.; Brydon-Miller, Mary; Raider-Roth, Miriam – Educational Forum, 2016
Practitioner inquiry provides a powerful tool for improving practice and addressing critical issues in classrooms, schools, and broader communities. However, it also raises unique ethical challenges that often go unrecognized and unresolved. Structured Ethical Reflection (SER) provides teacher researchers with a process for identifying core values…
Descriptors: Ethics, Reflection, Inquiry, Theory Practice Relationship
Alidou, Hassana, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
One of the greatest challenges in education today is to adapt and respond to a linguistically and culturally diverse world, and to combat social disintegration and discrimination. Participatory and collaborative action research represents an empowering and emancipatory approach to this challenge because the "target groups" become…
Descriptors: Action Research, Youth Opportunities, Adult Literacy, Program Improvement
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Sela, Orly; Harel, Miriam – Current Issues in Education, 2012
The study presents a case of a teacher education college which took upon itself the role of providing teachers with an opportunity to study their work as part of their professional development studies in three different frameworks. The objective of the study was to examine the role of the college as promoting research carried out by practicing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Role of Education, Action Research, Professional Development
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Schoenfeld, Alan H. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2010
This "Research Commentary" explores the roles of theoretical and empirical work in the development of productive lines of research by elaborating on 3 main points. First, the dialectic between theory and empirical practice is highly productive for both: Theory is enriched by close attention to data, and one's understanding of empirical issues is…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Reflection, Evaluation Research, Educational Principles
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Longhofer, Jeffrey; Floersch, Jerry – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
In this essay, the authors consider the challenge made by two keynote speakers at recent social work research conferences, one in the United States and the other in Europe. Both spoke of a knowledge crisis in social work. Both John Brekke (Society for Social Work and Research) and Peter Sommerfeld (First Annual European Conference for Social Work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Conferences (Gatherings), Intellectual Disciplines
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Macaskie, Jane; Lees, John – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2011
This paper challenges the neglect of psychotherapeutic methods in therapy research and discusses the use of methods arising directly from therapy practice to generate research data. Recent developments in therapy research culture are critiqued in order to contextualise the present contribution. The research design and methodology evolve from the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Psychotherapy
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Fulton, Amy E.; Walsh, Christine A.; Azulai, Anna; Gulbrandsen, Cari; Tong, Hongmei – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2015
Social work students and faculty are increasingly embracing online education and collaborative teaching. Yet models to support these activities have not been adequately developed. This paper describes how a team of instructors developed, delivered, and evaluated an undergraduate gerontological social work course using a collaborative online…
Descriptors: Social Work, Educational Gerontology, Electronic Learning, Teacher Collaboration
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Kim, Kyoung-Ae; Roth, Gene Leon – Current Issues in Education, 2011
This qualitative case study explores types of work-related information that novice teachers seek out and learn that is related to their daily work tasks. Eighteen experienced K-6 teachers offer their reflections about the dynamics of seeking and interpreting work-related information during their initial years of teaching. In-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Conditions
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Downs, Yvonne – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2010
Drawing heavily on my MA dissertation but influenced by subsequent transcription experience, I relate how a technical problem in the recording of an interview necessitated deliberations on the nature and purpose of transcription that continue to have repercussions for my transcription practice and, furthermore, for my understanding of research as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Methodology, Interviews
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Sandretto, Susan – Studying Teacher Education, 2009
This article examines the potential contradictions of conducting a collaborative self-study research project within a poststructural framework. It is a discussion about the use of theory in self-study research, rather than a report of research findings. The discussion is shaped through (re)consideration of a collaborative self-study doctoral…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Reflective Teaching, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
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Parker, Darlene Ciuffetelli – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This paper explores narrative inquiry practices in pre-service teacher education program. Written dialogue by teacher candidates provided deep and long term reflection during a 5-year initial teacher education program. This 4-year longitudinal study with 30 teacher candidate participants considers participants' knowledge formation in becoming…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Letters (Correspondence), Personal Narratives, Educational Experience
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Radd, Sharon I. – Journal of School Leadership, 2008
This article describes research dilemmas recorded and analyzed while I studied school leaders for social justice. Data consist of (1) my observations, reflections, and memos from interviews with school leaders and social justice experts (as dissertation research), (2) my observations from national and international research conferences, and (3)…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Social Justice, Familiarity, Ideology
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