Practitioner Research in Education
eBook - PDF

Practitioner Research in Education

Making a Difference

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Practitioner Research in Education

Making a Difference

About this book

`Practitioner Research in Education should become a millennium "must" for principals and school leaders whose schools are under OfSTED spotlight and for all those practitioners who earnestly aim to undertake higher managment studies whilst "in situ" in their teaching posts.... It is a publication well worth reading by all those who continue to be, justifiably, enthused by school development issues? - Angela Monkman Brushett, OfSTED Inspector

`This is a very simple but notable piece of work... They have done a service to education in providing evidence (and there is remarkably little elsewhere) that continuous professional development does pay off in terms of a better education for pupils in schools? - School Leadership and Management

Much debate currently concerns the value of education research : how is it perceived by practitioners and students ? How useful and relevant is it ? Who best carries it out ? Can it be free from political influence ? While practitioner research is widely advocated, little is known about its effect on individuals, teams and the institution.

In Practitioner Research in Education, the authors explore the effects of teachers? and lecturers? research and its impact on organizational improvement. Whether affecting whole school cultures through teachers? group work, or influencing practice through an individual?s research, the accounts in this book show how research can make a difference. They show how improvements in management and leadership arising from practitioner research can contribute to advances in teaching and learning.

The book includes material on how to conduct research, the types of research which practitioners can carry out in a school or college, and the implications of research for organizational development. Readers will be able to draw valuable lessons for personal, professional, team or school improvement.

Practitioner Research In Education will be useful to students and practitioners of educational management, to those doing research in educational settings, and to school managers who are committed to school improvement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Editor's Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1 - The Significance of Site-Based Practitioner Research in Educational Management
  6. Section A - Developing Aspects of Management
  7. Chapter 2 - Developing the Management of People
  8. Chapter 3 - Re-Appraising Roles through Research
  9. Chapter 4 - Influencing the Management of the Curriculum
  10. Chapter 5 - Transforming Structures and Culture
  11. Section B - Affecting the School as an Institution
  12. Chapter 6 - Some Effects of Multiple Research Projects on the Host School Staff and their Relationships
  13. Chapter 7 - Influencing School Culture
  14. Chapter 8 - Engendering Change
  15. Section C - School Improvement – A Research-Rich Zone
  16. Chapter 9 - What Makes for Effective Research in a School or College?
  17. Chapter 10 - Conclusions
  18. References
  19. Author Index
  20. Subject Index