The issue of pastoral care and how a teacher effectively provides it is currently a topic of great debate in the media. With teachers increasingly bearing the brunt of their pupils' difficult personal lives, they feel under pressure to do the 'right thing' and to do it in an informed and professional manner. This book investigates how teachers can attempt to give good quality pastoral care, whether as a form tutor in the first instance or in a managerial role further along in their development. It uses practical case studies as examples of what can be achieved, and explores the theory of...
The issue of pastoral care and how a teacher effectively provides it is currently a topic of great debate in the media. With teachers increasingly bea...
Students carrying out action research must learn how to be successful writers as well as researchers, and it is the disconnection between the two that "Writing up Your Action Research Project" will help readers to address and overcome. Through detailed and practical advice supported by real-life case study material from a range of countries and disciplines, this book will equip students with the skills they need to confidently communicate their action research in writing.
Written with a specific focus on action research, the book explains and models the process of producing writing that...
Students carrying out action research must learn how to be successful writers as well as researchers, and it is the disconnection between the two t...
This practical text supports readers on their journey to becoming self-reflective practitioner-researchers. It provides the ideas and frameworks necessary to understand action research and expertly guides readers through the practicalities and complexities of doing research in their own context.
Inside you will find:
An action plan to help you embark on your project
Guidance and advice on learning to ask the right questions as you progress
A full resource on writing up and communicating your results
Inspiration to explain the...
This practical text supports readers on their journey to becoming self-reflective practitioner-researchers. It provides the ideas and frameworks neces...
The issue of pastoral care and how a teacher effectively provides it is currently a topic of great debate in the media. With teachers increasingly bearing the brunt of their pupils' difficult personal lives, they feel under pressure to do the 'right thing' and to do it in an informed and professional manner. This book investigates how teachers can attempt to give good quality pastoral care, whether as a form tutor in the first instance or in a managerial role further along in their development. It uses practical case studies as examples of what can be achieved, and explores the theory of...
The issue of pastoral care and how a teacher effectively provides it is currently a topic of great debate in the media. With teachers increasingly bea...
Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research centres on practitioners studying and researching their practices in higher education settings, in order to improve those practices for the benefit of others and themselves. Making research public is a key aspect of ensuring the quality of educational research and educational practices: "Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research" raises questions and develops conversations about why higher education practitioners should study and improve their work, how this may be done, and what might be some of the benefits of doing so. What we do as...
Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research centres on practitioners studying and researching their practices in higher education settings, in ...
In this fascinating and very personal book, Jean McNiff, author of the successful Action Research: Principles and Practice, argues that educational knowledge is created by individual teachers as they attempt to express their own values in their professional lives. Working with case studies of actual practice, she looks again at the familiar action research paradigm of identifying a problem, imagining, implementing and evaluating a solution and modifying practice in the light of that evaluation. She gives practical advice on how working in this way can aid the...
In this fascinating and very personal book, Jean McNiff, author of the successful Action Research: Principles and Practice, ...
The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. However, there are very few texts that demonstrate how this can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement or that emphasise the reflective nature of improving professionalism. Action Research in Organisations...
The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowle...
This practical text supports readers on their journey to becoming self-reflective practitioner-researchers. It provides the ideas and frameworks necessary to understand action research and expertly guides readers through the practicalities and complexities of doing research in their own context.
Inside you will find:
An action plan to help you embark on your project
Guidance and advice on learning to ask the right questions as you progress
A full resource on writing up and communicating your results
Inspiration to explain the...
This practical text supports readers on their journey to becoming self-reflective practitioner-researchers. It provides the ideas and frameworks neces...
Nurses work in complex situations with daily challenges, where the needs of each patient represent unique demands. Action research helps nurses to investigate their practices as reflective practitioners, allowing them to ask 'What is going on? How do we understand the existing situation? How do we improve it?'
This book supports nurses in investigating their own professional practices in order to develop the new insights and approaches:
- embodying holistic perspectives in dialogical and relational forms of individual and organisational learning, - equal emphasis on processes...
Nurses work in complex situations with daily challenges, where the needs of each patient represent unique demands. Action research helps nurses to inv...
Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research centres on practitioners studying and researching their practices in higher education settings, in order to improve those practices for the benefit of others and themselves. Making research public is a key aspect of ensuring the quality of educational research and educational practices: "Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research" raises questions and develops conversations about why higher education practitioners should study and improve their work, how this may be done, and what might be some of the benefits of doing so. What we do as...
Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research centres on practitioners studying and researching their practices in higher education settings, in ...
