The Role of Research in Teachers' Work: Narratives of Classroom Action Research

ISBN-13: 9781138701267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 144 str.

Lesley Scanlon

Opis

In the teacher researcher debate, academics and bureaucrats continue to speak for teachers, with teachers' voices rarely being accorded equal recognition. The Role of Research in Teachers' Work rectifies this, as it privileges teachers' voices and explores what teachers themselves say about systematic research, the process of becoming researchers and the establishment of collaborative relationships with their teacher research partner; as well as the impact of research on their identity as teachers and on their students, on student outcomes, and on their pedagogical practices. The book examines the experiences of a group of teachers in an Australian secondary school as they engage in systematic classroom inquiry. Scanlon also examines the knowledge teachers create through their teacher inquiry and how that knowledge is perceived by others within the school community. The school context is Grange High School, which was the setting for Scanlon's 2015 Routledge publication, My School. This new book can be read both as a companion volume to My School and as a standalone exploration of teachers' own narratives of engaging in action research. Together, these two books are unique in contemporary writing on schools, as they represent one of the only comprehensive longitudinal studies of a low socioeconomic status secondary school from the perspective of those who learn and teach within it. This book enables the teacher research from Grange High to be published and enables teachers to be part of the scholarly conversation about their work and the place of research in that work. As such, it should be essential reading for academics, teacher educators and postgraduates in the field of education. It should also be of great interest to policymakers and teachers.

O autorze

Lesley Scanlon is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia.