Documents contributions of a teacher action-research project to a community-building process engendered by Chicago Schools' Alliance for Achievement Network. Sustaining an action-research culture requires supportive leadership, adequate time, collaboration and sharing, teacher ownership, teacher initiative, and access to information. (11…

Discusses negative consequences of researchers' faith in positivistic inquiry: (1) it promotes the idea that certain rationalistic ingredients are obligatory in research; (2) it leads to faith in models of the mind based on order; and (3) it leads to a notion of teaching as articulating "know what" rather than "know how." (DSK)

Describes the experiences of two elementary teacher-researchers as they explore science teaching and learning in their two nongraded primary classrooms through the process of complex instruction. Concludes that, because the teacher's role in conducting complex instruction activities is multifaceted and complex, successful implementation of complex…

Supports David Howes's position that teachers engaged in qualitative research are best placed to enrich understandings of literacy learning and teaching. Cautions that the ethics and representational issues of such research are problematic and need to be considered. Reviews two books that explore the thorny questions surrounding qualitative…

A researcher's participatory research collaboration with indigenous teachers to develop culturally appropriate practices is used to reflect on the researcher's role as an "inside-outsider." Ways to develop appropriate practices in participatory research are addressed. (SK)

Clarifies the concept of professional development in the context of lifelong learning. Considers professional development as essential for researcher/teachers in higher education and discusses teaching as scholarship. (SK)

Explores two metaphors for learning, the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor. After a critical evaluation of the interpretations and applications of these metaphors, the question of theoretical unification of research on learning is addressed, stressing the dangers of too great a devotion to one single metaphor. (SLD)

Developers of teacher researcher courses must address purposes, definitions, audiences, assessment and rigor, course content and sequence, methodological choices, and responses to student writing. (SK)

The Perseus Project, a digital library in the humanities concentrating on ancient Greek culture, is expanding to cover Roman, Renaissance and various other areas of the humanities. Goals include helping traditional scholars research effectively and help humanists use technology to redefine the relationship between their work and the broader…

Describes the action research model used by the Pennsylvania Action Research Network, summarizes impact evaluation results since 1995, and concludes that the network has had a major impact on the professional development of adult educators in the state. (SK)

Practitioner inquiry groups formed by Pennsylvania adult literacy practitioners provide an alternative to traditional professional development. The network provides opportunities for sharing contextualized knowledge and acquiring new ways of practice. (SK)

Examines 10 variables in content analyses of 245 journal articles from the social scientific, interpretive, and critical traditions. Finds that researchers conform highly to expectations associated with ontology, epistemology, data collection, and data analysis, but less so with theory, hypotheses, sampling, verification, and generalization.…

Examines collaborative academic authorship by addressing equity in name ordering and conventions used in crediting authorship. Suggests ways to make equal authorship visible and calls for development of collaborative academic culture and negotiation with scholarly journals and database services for recognition of equal authorship. (SK)

Explores motivations and approaches of three researchers on Mexican American education: Emory Stephen Bogardus, who promoted an ideology of conformity to Anglo norms; Loyd Spencer Tireman, who adopted a "melting-pot" assimilationist approach; and Herschel Thurman Manuel, advocate of a pluralist position respecting Spanish language and…

Compares Carr and Kemmis' view of action research, linked to the emancipatory political ideology of critical theory, with Dewey's pragmatic epistemology, focused on moving from a problem identified in experience through a means-end continuum that guides inquiry. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)