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Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology designed to bridge the divide between practitioner and scholar, drawing together many strands to explain the research process not just as something teacher researchers do, but as a fundamental part of who teacher researchers are. Emphasizing the researcher over the method, CPR embraces and amplifies the skills and passions teachers naturally bring to their research endeavours. Emerging from the tradition of critical pedagogy, Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers transcends longstanding debates over quantitative vs. qualitative and scholar vs. practitioner research. The text examines the histories and current applications of common methodologies and re-conceptualizes the ways that these methodologies can be used to enhance teachers’ identities as practitioners and researchers. It also provides a critical examination of the role of Institutional Review Boards, and explores the complexity and ethics of data collection, data analysis, and writing. Through guiding questions and writing prompts, the author encourages readers to think through the process of design and conducting CPR. The text is theoretically rich, but written in an accessible style infused with metaphor, irony, and humour. Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers is both instructive and uplifting, sending the message that research is difficult but also joyful, like life itself.

Table of Contents

  1. Acknowledgments

    Preface

    Part I—Breathing Life into Research Methods for Teachers

    1. Introduction: Why Critical Praxis Research?

    2. Stages of Grief & Bringing the Joy Back to Inquiry

    3. Positivist Research, Death of the Self

    4. Qualitative Research: The Researcher in a Comatose State

    5. CPR, Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers

    Part II—Practicing Critical Praxis Research

    6. The Seven Deadly Sins: Vices and Virtues of CPR

    7. The Art of CPR Research Design

    8. From Knowledge Discovery to Understanding

    9. Demystifying Research Ethics in CPR

    Part III—CPR in Action

    10. Finding Solidarity with/in/through CPR

    11. Shaken and Stirred by Carolyne Ali-Kahn

    12. Making Space for Praxis: Reflections on Research with ESL Teachers by Elizabeth Robinson

    13. Developing My Own Ways of Knowing as a Teacher Researcher by Maura Morse

    14. The Interplay of Identity, Context, and Purpose in a Study of Mathematics Teaching and Learning by Roser Giné

    15. An Alternative in UpStream: Reconsidering Alternative Education and Resiliency vis-à-vis Identity and Context by Siouxsie Espinosa

    16. From Research to Me-Search by Christopher J. Avilés

    17. The Whole Story by Melissa N. Winchell

    Glossary

    Index

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      Publisher: Springer
      Publication Date: 17/08/2011
      ISBN13: 9789400717893, 978-9400717893
      ISBN10: 940071789X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology designed to bridge the divide between practitioner and scholar, drawing together many strands to explain the research process not just as something teacher researchers do, but as a fundamental part of who teacher researchers are. Emphasizing the researcher over the method, CPR embraces and amplifies the skills and passions teachers naturally bring to their research endeavours. Emerging from the tradition of critical pedagogy, Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers transcends longstanding debates over quantitative vs. qualitative and scholar vs. practitioner research. The text examines the histories and current applications of common methodologies and re-conceptualizes the ways that these methodologies can be used to enhance teachers’ identities as practitioners and researchers. It also provides a critical examination of the role of Institutional Review Boards, and explores the complexity and ethics of data collection, data analysis, and writing. Through guiding questions and writing prompts, the author encourages readers to think through the process of design and conducting CPR. The text is theoretically rich, but written in an accessible style infused with metaphor, irony, and humour. Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers is both instructive and uplifting, sending the message that research is difficult but also joyful, like life itself.

      Table of Contents

      1. Acknowledgments

        Preface

        Part I—Breathing Life into Research Methods for Teachers

        1. Introduction: Why Critical Praxis Research?

        2. Stages of Grief & Bringing the Joy Back to Inquiry

        3. Positivist Research, Death of the Self

        4. Qualitative Research: The Researcher in a Comatose State

        5. CPR, Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers

        Part II—Practicing Critical Praxis Research

        6. The Seven Deadly Sins: Vices and Virtues of CPR

        7. The Art of CPR Research Design

        8. From Knowledge Discovery to Understanding

        9. Demystifying Research Ethics in CPR

        Part III—CPR in Action

        10. Finding Solidarity with/in/through CPR

        11. Shaken and Stirred by Carolyne Ali-Kahn

        12. Making Space for Praxis: Reflections on Research with ESL Teachers by Elizabeth Robinson

        13. Developing My Own Ways of Knowing as a Teacher Researcher by Maura Morse

        14. The Interplay of Identity, Context, and Purpose in a Study of Mathematics Teaching and Learning by Roser Giné

        15. An Alternative in UpStream: Reconsidering Alternative Education and Resiliency vis-à-vis Identity and Context by Siouxsie Espinosa

        16. From Research to Me-Search by Christopher J. Avilés

        17. The Whole Story by Melissa N. Winchell

        Glossary

        Index

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