Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Topic: Research Abstracts



10-second review: Teachers’ beliefs; problems with researcher/teacher collaboration; discussing educational problems.

Summaries: teachers’ beliefs: argues that teachers’ beliefs can and should become an important focus of educational inquiry. MF Patares, 1992, 207. ………. problems with researcher/teacher collaboration: “Points out the problematic power relations, competing agendas, and constraints on the teacher’s freedom to plan the teaching program she considers appropriate that arise in such a collaboration.” I Snyder, 1992, p. 207. ………. educational problems: finds that talk about problems and their solutions led to analysis of underlying assumptions. MH Thompson, 1991, p. 208.

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