Rick Breault, Donna Adair Breault

Professional Development Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Researching Lessons From the Field

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Professional Development Schools: Researching Lessons from the Field provides a comprehensive analysis of PDS research that can aid PDS stakeholders in designing and sustaining meaningful research in their partnerships. Breault and Breault used an extensive qualitative meta-synthesis to examine the research over the past 20 years. Their comprehensive review of 300 studies provides a.deep understanding of the challenges and potential within PDSs. The authors offer analysis regarding key elements of PDSs and highlight strong studies including a large-scale, multi-site study and studies using mixed methods and action research effectively. They also highlight exemplary studies showing how pilot studies are effective ways to research new partnerships, how theory can lead to greater abstraction, and how metaphor can clarify complex relationships. This book is an essential resource for all stakeholders involved in professional development schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442208414
• Artikelnr.: 38310353

Autorenporträt

Rick Breault is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction/Literacy at West Virginia University. He received his EdD in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in social foundations of education from Northern Illinois University. Rick was an elementary and middle school teacher before entering higher education and, since then, has worked primarily in teacher education. His research interests include the nature of professional development school writing, aesthetic inquiry into teaching practices, and the sense of place in educational research. Among his recent publications are articles in Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teacher Education Quarterly, and Equity and Excellence in Education. Rick was also a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary and was recently recognized for imaginative teaching practice by the Lincoln Center Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: A PDS by Any Other Name
Chapter 2: Problems and Potential in PDS Research
Chapter 3: Is It Research or Not?
Chapter 4: Research That is Good for Something: Warrantability and Added
Value
Chapter Five: The Nature and Use of Qualitative Data in PDS Research
Chapter 6: Representation in PDS Literature
Chapter 7: Organizational Implications for PDS Research
Chapter 8: Doing Meaningful Research in a PDS Setting