Student-Centered Research (eBook)

James Pelech (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
189 Seiten
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64802-534-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Teachers increasingly are being charged to conduct research on teaching and learning in their classes. Action research is an instrument that teachers can use for their particular classroom to meet this charge. While traditional research provides effective guidelines for teaching and learning, its generalized format does not take into consideration the multitude of variables that affect individual classrooms and students. Action research enables the teacher to improve the learning of the students in their particular context; this, in turn, improves the professional practice of the teacher.
The uniqueness of the model presented in this book is that this model is guided by specific constructivist principles. These principles are then transformed into learning strategies and applied to the action research cycle. Each stage of the action research process also is steered by prompts emanating from the constructivist philosophy. The prompts provide questions that the teacher can use to examine current practices and consider new approaches.
The blending of constructivism and action research enables the teacher to create a new cognitive framework for understanding and enhancing student learning . This book provides a guide for combining two important traditions resulting in a research platform which creates new knowledge about both students and teachers.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Student-Centered Research 4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 5
Contents 6
Foreword 10
Acknowledgments 16
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview 18
Chapter 2: Helping Students Learn 22
Chapter 3: Reflection and Teacher Research 32
Chapter 4: Examining Teacher Research 48
Chapter 5: Cognitive Foundations 62
Chapter 6: Organizing the Constructivist Principles 98
Chapter 7: Important Prerequisites 102
Chapter 8: Planning for the Area of Focus and the Learning Environment 118
Chapter 9: Planning for Data, Data Interpretation, and Communication 136
Chapter 10: Phase 1: Discussing Quiz Preparation 146
Chapter 11: Phase 2: Introducing Active Processing 154
Chapter 12: Phase 3: Affirming Themes and Restructuring 162
Chapter 13: Phase 4: Making Mistakes and Learning 172
Chapter 14: The Final Action Plan 178
Chapter 15: Validity 184
Index 190
About the Author 194

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• ISBN-10: 1-64802-534-X / 164802534X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64802-534-1 / 9781648025341