‘I’ is for ‘Insider’: Practitioner Research in Schools

Inda Schaenen, Angela Kohnen, Pablo Flinn, Wendy Saul and Jane Zeni

International Journal of Action Research, 2012, vol. 8, issue 1, 68-101

Abstract: In this paper we five teachers and teacher educators draw upon our personal classroom experiences in order to explore the definitions, descriptions, and nature of educational practitioner research, what we call teacher research. We highlight the tensions that can exist between and among teacher research, institutional needs and macro-policies, and argue that as both stance and method, teacher research can complement traditional, outsider-driven social science research. Further, practitioner research can check the errors and inequitable outcomes which may result from educational policies strictly reliant on the large-scale quantitative research designs currently dominant in the United States.

Keywords: teacher research; educational action research; teacher inquiry; practitioner research in schools; insider research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A13 A14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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