Editors:
- The book brings together perspectives from a range of key scholars and practitioners
- The book explores practical, political and theoretical dimensions of action research/practitioner inquiry
- The book provides a contemporary exploration of the links between practitioner inquiry and teacher professional learning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education (PROD, volume 7)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Practitioner Inquiry
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Front Matter
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Teachers' Work and Learning
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Front Matter
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About this book
Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student voice and the use of images in capturing young people’s perspectives on their learning experience. So it is more than fitting that this unique text on practitioner inquiry and teacher professional learning is dedicated to her.
Rethinking Education Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry is a compilation of essays that explore contemporary issues in practitioner inquiry and action research from the perspective of both university-based and school-based authors. The essays discuss the practical, political and theoretical dimensions of practitioner inquiry, advancing the argument that the adoption of an inquiring approach to practice is both an integral dimension of teachers’ work in the modern school as well as critical to effective and authentic professional learning. And the essays draw on the work of Groundwater-Smith to demonstrate the benefits brought to bear on schools, teachers and learners when the complex nature of the relationship between inquiry and practice is understood and acted upon in pursuit of democratic knowledge interests.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, Australia
Nicole Mockler
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Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Judyth Sachs
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry
Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith
Editors: Nicole Mockler, Judyth Sachs
Series Title: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0805-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0804-4Published: 15 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3590-3Published: 29 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0805-1Published: 13 April 2011
Series ISSN: 1879-8624
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 260
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics