BECOMING A TEACHING THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH:PROCESS, CONTEXT, AND SELF-STUDYTABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION 1AR 1: BECOMING A STUDENT-TEACHER/ACTION RESEARCHER 6AR 1. 1 Images of Teacher and Researcher 6AR 1. 2 Exploring "Action" and "Research" 10AR 1. 3 Philosophical Underpinnings of Action Research 18AR 1. 4 Research Worlds, Research Lives: Forms of Action Research 25AR 1. 5 Being a Student-Teacher Action Researcher 32AR 1. 6 Re-Construction: What I Understand now about Action Research 41AR 1. 7 Action Research Today: Resources and Websites of theAction Research Community 45CC 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE CULTURAL CONTEXT ACTIVITIES 49CC 1.
1 Introductions to the Cultural Context Activities 49CC 1. 2 Images of School and Society 54SS1: INTRODUCTION TO SELF-STUDY ACTIVITIES 63SS 1. 1 Introduction to the Self-Study Activities 63SS 1. 2 Personal Interview 63AR 2: DISCOVERING AN AREA OF FOCUS 66AR 2. 1 Introduction and Overview 66AR 2. 2 Exploring Areas of Interest: Listening to Self 67AR 2. 3 Explore your School Context: Listening to your Setting 69AR 2. 4 Building a Research Community:Colleagues, Coursework, and Literature 75AR 2.
5 Formulate a Critical Question 83AR 2. 6 Sharpening your Critical Question 86CC 2: LISTENING TO YOUR SETTING:GETTING TO KNOW YOUR PLACEMENT 89CC 2. 1 Getting to Know Your Classroom Culture 89CC 2. 2 Analyzing School Documents 92SS 2: IMAGES OF SELF AS STUDENT-TEACHER/RESEARCHER 96SS 2. 1 Introduction 96SS 2. 2 Images of Self as Student-Teacher/Researcher 96AR 3: ACTION RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY 101AR 3. 1 Introduction to Data Collection Methods 101AR 3. 2 The Art and Craft of Data Collection 105AR 3.
3 Understanding Triangulation 110AR 3. 4 The Action Research Design 116CC 3: CONTEXT MATTERS:SETTING AND THE ACTION RESEARCH DESIGN 120CC 3. 1 Context Matters: Ramon''s Action Research Project 120CC 3. 2 The Art and Craft of Negotiation 121CC 3. 3 When New Information changes the design 122CC 3. 4 A Tale of One Mentor Teacher and Two Student Teachers:The Context as You 125SS 3: RE-THINKING YOUR ACTION RESEARCH DESIGN THROUGH ACULTURAL PROFICIENCY LENS 127SS 3. 1 Introduction 127SS 3. 2 The Action Research Design and Cultural Proficiency 129SS 3.
3 Analyzing/Deconstructing your Action Research Design 136AR 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 140AR 4. 1 Introduction and Overview of Data Interpretation 140AR 4. 2 Trustworthiness in Data Interpretation 149AR 4. 3 On-Going Data Analysis, Synthesis, and Deconstruction 155AR 4. 4 Data Interpretation 167AR 4. 5 Scaffold(s) for Data Interpretation 168AR 4. 6 Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Your Interpretations:A Checklist 174CC 4: THE NUMBERS TELL THE STORY: STATISTICAL ANALYSISAND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 177CC 4. 1 Introduction 177CC 4.
2 Reading Empirical Research: A Quick Guide 182CC 4. 3 A Primer: Reading Empirical Research 189CC 4. 4 Research and Educational Policy in the Classroom 194SS 4: TEACHER/RESEARCHER AS STRATEGIC INTERVENTION 200SS 4. 1 Introduction 200SS 4. 2 Sticking Point: The Student-Teacher/Researcherand Classroom Management 201SS 4. 3 Work Around: Scaffolding the Learning 202AR 5: TELLING THE STORY OF YOUR ACTION RESEARCH 206AR 5. 1 Telling Your Story 206AR 5. 2 Developing Personal and Professional Style and Voice 218AR 5.
3 The Research Paper: Writing Your Story 220AR 5. 4 The Portfolio: Showing Your Story 223AR 5. 5 Using Art Forms to Represent your Story 238AR 5. 6 Displaying Your Story Using Posters and Brochures 239AR 5. 7 Celebrating, Sharing:Find Joy and Humility Through Action Research 240AR 6. 0 Living Action Research as a Professional Educator 241AR 6. 1 Looping Back and Articulating what you know 241AR 6. 2 Action Research and Your First Year of Teaching 246AR 6.
3 Action Research, Energy, Enthusiasmand Loving Your Job as a Teacher 252AR 6. 4 Becoming an Agent of Change Through Action Research 261GLOSSARY 262Appendix A: Personal Paradigm Self-Test/Scoring Guide 267Appendix B: Data Set/Teacher Images 268Appendix C: Data Set/Teacher Gift.