Becoming a Teacher Through Action Research: Process, Context, and Self-Study

By Kevin Carr and Donna Kalmbach Phillips

Book Overview

Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Third Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing assistance for all stages of the research experience, including guidance on how to select an area of focus, design a culturally-proficient study, collect and interpret data, and communicate findings.

With an updated introduction and two new chapters, this revised edition fully develops a convincing response to the framing question of the book, "Why pre-service teacher action research?" The new edition continues to focus on elements of trustworthy pre-service teacher action research, and provides a more robust overview of research methodology. Using additional activities, charts, and examples, this book offers support during the steps of writing a critical question, data collection, data analysis and the use of analytic memos.

New Features in the Third Edition include:

New chapters on ongoing data analysis and final data interpretation, which include practice scenarios and examples to give readers a deeper understanding of doing the work of action research processes;

An expanded chapter on action research methodology, which includes scaffolds for making methodological decisions, additional practice scenarios, and a revised action research design template;

New end-of-chapter Content and Process Questions to encourage deeper understanding;

New examples throughout, expanded additional glossary terms, enhanced literature review guidance, and updated templates to support action research projects;

An updated companion website with downloadable templates and additional instructor resources;

A revised interior text design to increase the accessibility of the text.

This one-of-a-kind guide continues to offer invaluable support for teacher-education students during a critical phase of their professional--and personal--lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415660491
• ISBN13: 9780415660495
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Amazing!

Finally an action research book for preservice teachers! Becoming a Teacher Through Action Research is the most comprehensive action research text I have read. Both the text and the CD-ROM allows the reader to interact with the three strands: process of action research, action research in cultural context, and self-study in a fluid manner that facilitates critical thinking. What is incredible about the CD-ROM is that it provides the reader an opportunity to participate with a variety of interactive activities as well as it offers easy to access, printable data collection sample tools, four action research design templates, sample data sets, and seven action research papers.