Practitioner research offers a distinctive platform for educators to develop and share their professional expertise. It is the only approach that fully recognises the vital role practitioners play in generating and applying new knowledge in education.

The BERA Guide to Practitioner Research is a companion guide for those who see themselves as practitioner researchers or those who are interested in becoming practitioner researchers within educational settings. Chapters highlights the considerations for understanding and engaging in practitioner research by drawing upon a range of case studies that exemplify the varied forms practitioner research can take, the influence it can have, and the subsequent questions it may raise for how we understand research and the role and relationship between teachers and higher education.

Grounded in concrete examples of the characteristics and possibilities of educational practitioner research, The BERA Guide to Practitioner Research usefully illustrates the characteristics, principles, strategies, and challenges by presenting a range of real-world examples of practitioner research projects and reveals the variety of practitioner researcher roles and projects, promoting the voices of practitioner researchers in their educational settings.

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Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction and Editorial Perspective on Practitioner Research
Introduction to Section 1: The Field of Practitioner Research and Worldviews
Chapter 1 Practitioner Research in Education: Philosophical Foundations, Contextual Applications, and Policy Implications
Chapter 2 Practitioner Research in Initial Teacher Education
Chapter 3 Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Research-Practice Links in Education for a Research-Informed Future
Introduction to Section 2: Power, Positionality, and Identity in Practitioner Research
Chapter 4 Empowering a Research-Engaged Profession
Chapter 5 The Cyclical Nature of Being Both ‘Practitioner’ and ‘Researcher’ and the Influence on Professional Development Design
Chapter 6 Three Lecturers, Three Universities, Three Countries: Can Facilitating Connecting Art Workshops in International Educational Contexts Create Connection and Criticality?
Chapter 7 Researching on the Inside Looking in: Navigating Issues of Power in Conducting Practitioner Research Projects
Chapter 8 Teachers Teaching Teachers
Introduction to Section 3: Professional Learning and Sharing Skills
Chapter 9 The Journey Towards a Whole-School Culture of Teachers as Researchers: Reflections from a State-Maintained School for Students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Chapter 10 Developing Research-Informed Trainee Teachers
Chapter 11 Disrupting to Develop
Chapter 12 Developing Professional Knowledge as a Consortium: Moving from ‘I’ to ‘We’
Chapter 13 An Insider Perspective: Exploring Teachers’ Engagement with Professional Development in Cooperation with Practitioner Co-Researchers
Chapter 14 The Research-Engaged Practitioner: The Importance of Research Literacy and Critical Reflection for the Novice Teacher’s Professional Learning
Introduction to Section 4: Research Knowledge, Quality, and Ethics in Practitioner Research
Chapter 15 How the Quality of Research and Research Partnerships (Practitioner Researcher) Can Be Enhanced by Using Critical Theory as a Framework
Chapter 16 Unpacking and Underpinning the Ethical Conduct and Sharing of Practitioner Research
Chapter 17 Exploratory Practice: What About the Learners?
Chapter 18 Managing Ethical Dilemmas with the Dual Identity of Practitioner and Researcher
Chapter 19 Dialogical Knowledge Curation in Education: Integrating Research and Practice in North East Wales
Chapter 20 Reflections and Future Directions in Practitioner Research
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