December 2011
Beginner
556 pages
17h 18m
English
Prior to addressing the overall characteristics and usual designs associated with practitioner research, it is instructive to explore this idea through the use of fictionalized concrete examples. The two stories here are of two kinds, the first representing an individual teacher applying practitioner research to his own practice without the involvement of colleagues. The second is an example of a lawyer adopting it to her own practice, but engaging other lawyers in the process. In each of these examples a format adapted from Kemmis and McTaggart (1982) will be used to organize the phases of the investigative process. These phases or stages are focusing, planning, acting, observing, reflecting, and ...
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