Lost in Practice: Transforming Nordic Educational Action Research

✍ Scribed by Karin Rönnerman, Petri Salo (eds.)

Publisher: SensePublishers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 233
Series: Pedagogy, Education and Praxis
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Traces of Nordic Educational Traditions....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Practical Knowledge Regime, Teachers’ Professionalism and Professional Development....Pages 13-30
Action Research and Translation Studies....Pages 31-52
The Nordic Tradition of Educational Action Research....Pages 53-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Practice of Peer Group Mentoring....Pages 75-93
Research Circles....Pages 95-112
From Transmission to Site-Based Professional Development....Pages 113-132
The Power of Risk-Taking in Professional Learning....Pages 133-151
Development Teams as Translators of School Reform Ideas....Pages 153-170
Research Partnership in Local Teaching Programme Work....Pages 171-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Reflection on Practice-Theory, Critical Friendship and Teachers’ Professional Development....Pages 197-203
Reflections on How the Theory of Practice Architectures is Being Used in the Nordic Context....Pages 205-217
Reflections on how Folk Enlightenment is used in a Nordic Context....Pages 219-222
Reflections on the Politics of Practice....Pages 223-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-239

✦ Subjects

Education (general)

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