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- Presents a comprehensive and clear guide on design research for practitioners rather than educational researchers
- Utilizes narrative case studies to provide the reader with vivid examples of successfully enacted design research as practice guided by theory
- Offers a unique and accessible supplement for coursework in various fields of study, including teaching and learning, school leadership, technology leadership, and educational research
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Educational Communications and Technology (BRIEFSECT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Today, K-12 practitioners are challenged to become educational innovators. Yet, little is available to the practitioner to guide their reflection about the design, development, and implementation of these innovations in their own practice. This brief approaches such problems of practice from the perspectives of design research. Although design research typically centers on the partnership between researchers and practitioners in real-world settings, relationships between researchers and practitioners are not always practical. In this brief, the authors explore how the design research process can make the goals, assumptions, processes, methods, and outcomes of design research uniquely accessible to the practitioner. In clear, explicit language, it introduces design research to practitioners using both expository discussions and a robust narrative case study approach that ably guides the reader through the phases of design research, namely:
- Theory to innovation to practice
- Understanding problems of practice
- Creating a design solution
- Assessing the design solution
- Evaluating learning outcomes
- Capturing lessons for practice
Understanding Problems of Practice is a singular resource for teachers and practitioners enrolled in graduate research courses or courses on teacher leadership. It also lends itself well as a supplement to professional development activities and studies at the district, school, and professional learning community levels.
Keywords
- Design research
- Classroom practice
- Problems of practice
- Design practice
- Educational innovation
- Teacher education
- Personal knowledge
- Design pattern
- Online course development
- Assessing design solutions
- Qualitative research methods
- Quantitative research methods
- Attitudes about technology
- Teacher technology knowledge
- Lessons for practice
- Design research lessons
- learning and instruction
Authors and Affiliations
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Learning Technologies in Schools, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
Dawn Hathaway, Priscilla Norton
About the authors
Dawn Hathaway is an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development, Graduate School of Education, Division of Learning Technologies at George Mason University. Dr. Hathaway designs and researches graduate programs for K-12 practicing teachers in a Master’s program in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Designing Digital Learning in Schools. Recently, she received the AACE E-Learn outstanding paper award (2014) and the AACE SITE outstanding paper award (2015), both co-authored with Priscilla Norton. She has a robust record of scholarship that includes design research and both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Problems of Practice
Book Subtitle: A Case Study in Design Research
Authors: Dawn Hathaway, Priscilla Norton
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Educational Communications and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77559-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77558-6Published: 16 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77559-3Published: 07 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2196-498X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 72
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations