Summary
Contents
Subject index
Action Research in Education is an essential guide for any lecturer, teacher or student-teacher interested in doing research. This exciting new edition of a popular text is an important resource for any education professional interested in investigating learning and teaching. Building on the success of Action Research in the Classroom, the authors have revised, updated and extended this book to include examples from further and higher education.Authors Vivienne Baumfield, Elaine Hall, and Kate Wall map out easy-to-follow steps for usefully applying an action research approach and provide practical tips and examples of real-life practitioner research projects from a range of schools, colleges and universities. This book will help teachers to: • Understand and apply practitioner inquiry • Enhance their problem-solving skills • Locate their own activity in a wider context • Maximize opportunities to develop practice • Evaluate the needs of their learners Clear, pragmatic and timely, this is a must-have text for all teachers and students of education.
Engaging with the Views of Families and the Wider Community
Engaging with the Views of Families and the Wider Community
Chapter Enquiry Questions
- What can you learn from parents and carers?
- What sort of questions normally get asked and how?
- How can this communication be made more interesting and complex?
- Can communication with families become part of ongoing cycles of enquiry?
Introduction: Accessing Data Beyond the School Gates
It will hardly be news to any teacher that the impact of individual schools on children's outcomes is by far outweighed by factors relating to the area they live in (HEFCE, 2005), the ethnicity (Mirza, 2006; Harding, 2006) and socioeconomic status of the family, the educational background of the parents and other children in the family (Sacker et al., 2002) and the attitude of the family towards education and the child's achievement ...
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