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Bibliography of Teacher/Practitioner Research

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  • Cochran Smith, M. & Lytle, S. (1999). The teacher research movement: A decade later. Educational Researcher, 28 (7), 15-25.
  • Cochran Smith, M. & Lytle, S. (1999). Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher Learning in Communities. Review of Research in Education, 24, 249-305.
  • Cockley, S. (nd). The adult educator’s guide to practitioner research. Dayton, VA: The Virginia Adult Educator’s Research Network

Online: http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/research/introduction.htm

  • Demetrion, G. (2000). Practitioner-based inquiry: Theoretical Probings. Adult Basic Education, 10 (3), 119-146.

Online: http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/George/practitn/practitn.pdf

  • Drennon, C. (1994). Adult Literacy Practitioners as Researchers. (Digest EDO-LE-94-03). Washington, DC: National Center for ESL Literacy Education

Online: http://www.cal.org/caela/digests/DRENNON.HTM

  • Fingeret, H. & Pates, A. (1994). Innovative Training Practices: Practitioner Research as Staff Development. The Story of a Participatory Research Project. Durham, NC: Literacy South
  • Goswami, D. & Stillman, P. (1987). Reclaiming the classroom: Teacher research as an agency for change. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishing
  • Horsman, J. & Norton, M. (1999). A framework to encourage and support practitioner involvement in adult literacy research in practice in Canada. Edmonton, AB: The RiPAL Network.

Online: http://www.nald.ca/ripal/Resourcs/Framwrk/Framwrk.pdf

  • Lytle, S. (1997). On Reading Teacher Research. Focus on Basics, (1A), 19 – 22.

Online: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=480

  • Lytle, S., Belzer, A. & Reumann, R. (1993). Adult Literacy Teachers, Tutors, and Administrators Research Their Practice. (NCAL Technical Report TR93-11). Philadelphia, PA: National Center on Adult Literacy.

Online: http://www.literacy.org/products/ncal/pdf/TR9311.pdf

  • Merrifield, J. (1997). Knowing, Learning, Doing: Participatory Action Research. Focus on Basics, 1, (A), pp. 23 – 26.

Online: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=479

  • Mohr, M. (1982). Window still: Teacher-Researchers and the study of writing process. ERIC Document ED 227494
  • Nixon, J. (1981). A teacher’s guide to action research: Evaluation, enquiry and development in the classroom. Long: Grant McIntyre
  • Queenan, M. (1988). Impertinent Questions about Teacher Research: A Review. The English Journal, 77(2), 41-46.
  • Quigley, A. & Norton, M. (2002). It simply makes us better. Learning from literacy research in practice networks. A resource for literacy research in practice in Canada. Edmonton, AB: The RiPAL Network.

Online: http://www.nald.ca/ripal/Resourcs/simply/english/simply.pdf

  • Smith, C. (2003). How teachers change. A study of professional development in adult education. NCSALL Reports #25. Cambridge, MA: National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Online: http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/report25.pdf

  • Steeves, P. (200). From practice to theory and back again. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Learning at the Centre Press.

Online: http://www.nald.ca/ripal/Resourcs/theory/FromPracticetoTheory.pdf

  • Sherman, R., Green, K, Taylor, L. & Greenberg, L. (1997). Inquiry Research Compendium. PRO-NET/Pelavin Research Institute

Online: http://www.calpro-online.org/pubs/Inquiry..pdf

  • Sherman, R. & Kutner, M. (nd). Professional Development Resource Guide for Adult Educators: Inquiry/Research Approach. Pro-Net/Pelavin Research Institute

Online: http://www.calpro-online.org/pubs/c_inquri.pdf

  • St. Clair, R., Chen, C.Y., & Taylor, L. (nd). How adult literacy practitioners use research. Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning.

Online: http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/orp/orp2.htm


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  • What goes on here: Practitioners study the student-practitioner relationship

Online: http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/whatgoes/whatgoes.pdf

Online Project Reports

  • 'The Pennsylvania Action Research Network

Online: http://www.learningfrompractice.org/paarn/default.htm

  • Online Action Research Project

Online: http://www.casas.org/22R&D/OAR%20Reflections%201998.pdf

  • Adult Education Teacher Inquiry Projects, Related research and resources

Online: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/inquiry.html