Being a Teacher / Researcher : : A Primer on Doing Authentic Inquiry Research on Teaching and Learning /

Being a Teacher / Researcher : : A Primer on Doing Authentic Inquiry Research on Teaching and Learning / / by Konstantinos Alexakos.

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Using a sociocultural approach to critical action research, this book is a primer in doing reflexive, authentic inquiry research in teaching and learning for educators as teacher / researchers. Rather than the artificial dichotomy between theory and practice, the roles of teacher and researcher are...

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Superior document:Bold Visions in Educational Research
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Alexakos, Konstantinos,
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Language:English
Series:Bold Visions in Educational Research
Physical Description:1 online resource (139 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Authentic Inquiry: A Bold Vision for the Learning Sciences
  • Foreword: Getting the Most from Difference
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Teacher Voices in Generating Theory
  • The “Objectivity” of Research, Knowledge and Knowing
  • Why Authentic Inquiry?
  • Authentic Inquiry as a Construct for Sociocultural Research
  • Reflexive Axiologies and Epistemologies
  • Using This Primer
  • Sociocultural Theory and Teaching and Learning
  • What is Knowledge?
  • Sociocultural Framework
  • Social Interactions
  • Sociocultural Research in Teacher Education
  • Teachers and Research on Teaching
  • Classroom Research
  • Teacher Knowledge through Systematic Research
  • Elements of a Sociocultural Research Framework
  • Hermeneutic Phenomenology
  • Epistemologies and Ontologies
  • Axiology
  • Criticality
  • Bricolage
  • Methodologies and Methods
  • Authentic Inquiry Research
  • Heuristics
  • Authentic Inquiry Research Framework
  • The Authentic Inquiry Heuristic
  • Tensions, Ethics, Conflicts, and Vulnerabilities
  • The Belmont Report
  • Possible Tensions
  • Research for Public Dissemination and the IRB
  • Recruiting Our Students as Participants
  • Benefits Versus Harm
  • Consent Forms
  • Some Additional Thoughts on IRBS
  • Doing a Research Project
  • Deciding and Selecting Participants
  • Multi-Level Methods and Data Resources
  • Choosing Research Questions
  • A Framework for the Research
  • Findings
  • Generalizability
  • Writing up an Informed Proposal for Your Research
  • Doing Authentic Inquiry and Creating Interventions
  • Writing up and Presenting Your Research
  • Literature Review
  • Manuscript or Thesis Component Descriptions
  • Flow Chart
  • Presentations
  • Some Additional Suggestions
  • My Beginnings as aTeacher / Researcher: The Spring 2007 Research
  • The 2007 Physics Class
  • Spring 2012 Study (The “BC Study”)
  • Challenges in Being Both the Principal Investigator and the Course Instructor
  • Final Remarks
  • Research as Transformative
  • The Teaching / Learning / Researching Dialectic
  • Practice / Theory Dialectic in Writing This Book
  • Transformations.

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