Initiating Practitioner Inquiry: Adult Literacy Teachers, Tutors, and Administrators Research Their Practice.

Autor/inn/en	Lytle, Susan L.; und weitere
Institution	National Center on Adult Literacy, Philadelphia, PA.
Titel	Initiating Practitioner Inquiry: Adult Literacy Teachers, Tutors, and Administrators Research Their Practice.
Quelle	(1993), (61 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Administrators; Adult Basic Education; Adult Educators; Adult Literacy; Educational Research; Literacy Education; Research Design; Research Methodology; Research Needs; Research Projects; Staff Development; Teacher Researchers; Tutors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult training; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Forschungsdesign; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungsbedarf; Forschungsvorhaben; Personnel development; Personalentwicklung; Lehrerforschung; Förderlehrer; Lehrender; Tutor
Abstract	Inquiry-centered staff development requires that adult literacy practitioners (adult educators, tutors, and administrators) function simultaneously as learners, researchers, and reformers performing the following actions: forming research communities within program or across program sites; using literature and their own experiences to investigate issues in the field collectively; generating research questions and conducting systematic inquiries into teaching, learning, and administration in their own program settings; organizing their research as social and collaborative processes; and disseminating their findings through oral and written presentations. The beginnings of inquiry-centered staff development may be traced to the action research movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Adult Literacy Practitioner Inquiry Project, which features biweekly seminars, has provided a strategic research site and research method for practitioners to conduct program-based inquiries into daily practice. A study of the design and initiation of inquiry projects by adult literacy practitioners has confirmed that practitioner research identifies and investigates a distinctive set of problems in practice and demonstrates that understanding practice cannot be accomplished by university researchers alone. (Appended is a table detailing practitioner researchers, programs, positions, and research questions. Contains 44 references.) (MN)
Anmerkungen	National Center on Adult Literacy, Dissemination/Publications, University of Pennsylvania, 3910 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3111 (order no. TR93-11: $7; check or money order payable to "Kinko's Copy Center").
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC