Becoming Critical: Education Knowledge and Action ResearchFirst published in 1986. There is now a growing movement to extend the professionalism of teachers by providing them with greater opportunities to engage in curriculum theorizing and educational research. The purpose of this book is to offer a rationale by outlining a philosophical justification for the view that teachers have a special role as researchers and that the most plausible way to construe educational research is as a form of critical social science. |
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... purpose of this book is to offer such a rationale by outlining a philosophical justification for the view that teachers have a special role as researchers and that the most plausible way to construe educational research is as a form of ...
... purpose of this book is to offer such a rationale by outlining a philosophical justification for the view that teachers have a special role as researchers and that the most plausible way to construe educational research is as a form of ...
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... purposes of this book is to question this conformist view of education by questioning some of the beliefs on which it rests. Among the most powerful and enduring of these beliefs are those surrounding the concepts of 'theory' and ...
... purposes of this book is to question this conformist view of education by questioning some of the beliefs on which it rests. Among the most powerful and enduring of these beliefs are those surrounding the concepts of 'theory' and ...
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... purpose of this chapter is to show that there are different images about what curriculum research is , what it is for and who is best placed to do it . Particular emphasis is given to the way in which these different images of ...
... purpose of this chapter is to show that there are different images about what curriculum research is , what it is for and who is best placed to do it . Particular emphasis is given to the way in which these different images of ...
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... purpose of Chapter 5 is to identify critical theory as the form of enquiry that seems to incorporate these criteria and to describe the kind of educational research methodology that this theoretical perspective entails. Chapter 6 takes ...
... purpose of Chapter 5 is to identify critical theory as the form of enquiry that seems to incorporate these criteria and to describe the kind of educational research methodology that this theoretical perspective entails. Chapter 6 takes ...
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... purpose and confining it to the production of empirically established findings.7 This step from the ' foundations ' approach to the ' educational theory ' perspective of Hirst and O'Connor is remarkable in completing a development in ...
... purpose and confining it to the production of empirically established findings.7 This step from the ' foundations ' approach to the ' educational theory ' perspective of Hirst and O'Connor is remarkable in completing a development in ...
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Becoming Critical: Education Knowledge and Action Research Wilfred Carr,Stephen Kemmis Limited preview - 2003 |
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