Digging Deeper Into Action Research

A Teacher Inquirer's Field Guide
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4522-4195-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Take your great idea to the next level with action research

How—and when—can we find time to conduct meaningful action research? Great ideas and thought-provoking questions can only blossom through methodical inquiry. Nancy Fichtman Dana steps in as your action-research coach and leads you on a journey through wonderings to real change in your classroom.

From framing your question to presenting your research, this guide will encourage, challenge, and ultimately lead you through the action research process. Teachers, students, and action-research coaches alike will learn how to:

• Reframe initial wonderings into pointed inquiries
• Creatively analyze both qualitative and quantitative data
• Draw action-research topics out of ordinary discussions with colleagues
• Share findings with others to help them improve as well

With real-life vignettes, self-guided worksheets, and an included DVD, Digging Deeper into Action Research is your go-to guide each time you embark on a new journey toward professional growth.

"This field guide will undoubtedly make a valuable contribution to the larger project of practitioners engaged in the work of reflecting on, studying, and interrogating their own practice in order ultimately to improve the social life of classrooms and the learning opportunities and life chances of children."
—Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education
Boston College

"This is THE book to read for any educator who ever found themselves asking, 'What just happened?!?' If you like finding your own solutions to your teaching problems, this is the key to your freedom and to satisfaction in your teaching career!"
—Mary K. Culver, Associate Clinical Professor
Northern Arizona University

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fichtman Dana, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Foreword by Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Inspire to Inquire DVD
About the Author
How to Use the Inquiry Books
1. Why Do Teacher Research Anyway?
Teacher Research Defined
How to Define Your Research
Why It's Important: The 5 Es
2. Developing and Fine-Tuning Your Wondering
Wondering Defined
How to Define Your Wondering
The Wondering Litmus Test
3. Developing and Fine-Tuning Your Research Plan
Research Plan Defined
How to Define Your Research Plan
The Inquiry Plan Litmus Test
4. Analyzing Your Data
Data Analysis Defined
How to Avoid Data Analysis Paralysis
The Data Analysis Litmus Test
5. Presenting Your Research
Presentation Defined
How to Define Your Presentation
The Presentation Litmus Test
6. On Your Way: Teacher Research as a Way of Being in the World
Inquiry Stance Defined
How to Define Your Stance
Living the Life of an Inquirer
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fichtman Dana, Nancy
Nancy Fichtman Dana is professor of education and distinguished teaching scholar at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She began her career in education as an elementary school teacher in Hannibal Central Schools, New York. Since earning her PhD from Florida State University in 1991, she has been a passionate advocate for teacher inquiry and has worked extensively in supporting schools, districts, and universities in implementing powerful programs of job-embedded professional development through inquiry across the United States and in several countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, Estonia, Slovenia, Spain, and Portugal. She has published 12 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals and edited books focused on her research exploring teacher and principal professional development and practitioner inquiry. Dana has received many honors for her teaching, research, and writing. Among them are the Association of Teacher Educators Mentoring and Distinguished Research in Teacher Education awards, the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate’s David G. Imig Distinguished Service Award, the National Staff Development Council (now Learning Forward) Book of the Year Award, and was one of three finalist in Baylor University’s prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching 2020 competition. Before joining the faculty at University of Florida in 2003, she worked at The Pennsylvania State University for 11 years, creating and launching their award-winning inquiry-based Professional Development School program with the State College Area School District. At the University of Florida, she worked to embed inquiry as a signature pedagogy into the undergraduate teacher education program, as well as developed and taught three popular classes on inquiry at the master’s and doctoral levels. In partnership with the Lastinger Center for Learning, Dana led the development and implementation of inquiry-based professional development for teachers across the state that included several of the nation’s largest school districts. Further, she was instrumental in the development of UF’s Teacher Leadership for School Improvement Program and Professional Practice Doctorate in Teachers, Schools, and Society, both national award winning programs that highlight inquiry as a signature program feature and have been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the #1 Online Graduate Education Programs in the nation.

Nancy Fichtman Dana is currently Professor of Education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She began her career in education as an elementary school teacher in Hannibal Central Schools, New York. Since earning her PhD from Florida State University in 1991, she has been a passionate advocate for practitioner inquiry and the promise this movement holds to enable all educators to experience powerful, job-embedded professional learning. She has coached the practitioner research of numerous educators from various districts across the nation, as well as published six books and over 50 articles in professional journals and books focused on teacher and principal professional development and practitioner inquiry. Most recently, she has worked with the Lastinger Center for Learning at University of Florida and the Pinellas County School District to redesign professional development district-wide with inquiry at the core.