Bibliography on Research in Practice
This is a mixed list of references relevant to practitioner research, participatory methods and action research. Some of the references deal with methodology and “how to do it” issues. Some of them discuss the bigger philosophies behind practitioner research. We welcome suggestions for additions to this list.
Arnold, R. and Burke, B. (1983) A Popular Education Handbook. Toronto: Participatory Research Group.
Atkinson, T and Claxton, G (eds) 2000 The Intuitive Practitioner OUP
Auerbach, E. (1989) “Towards a Social-Contextual Approach to Family Literacy.” Harvard Educational Review Vol 59 No. 2.
Barton, D and Hamilton, M (1998) Local Literacies: Reading and writing in One Community London: Routledge
Barton, D. (2000) “Researching Literacy Practices: learning from activities with teachers and students” in Barton, D., M. Hamilton & R. Ivanic (eds.) Situated Literacies. Routledge.
Baynham, M. (1993) Literacy Practices UK: Longman
Bingham, M.B. and Smith, C. Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice in Adult Education. Paper presented at the RISE Conference , Rutgers, October 2003.
Brooks, G., Cole, Davies, P., B., Frater, G., Harman, J., Hutchison, D., Keeping up with the children: Evaluation for the Basic Skills Agency. London. The Basic Skills Agency.
Brown, T. (2001) Action research and postmodernism: congruence and critique/Buckingham [England]; Philadelphia : Open University Press.
Bynner, J. (2002) Literacy, Numeracy and Employability ALNARC Forum
Campbell, A. (2004) Practitioner research and professional development in Education/London: Paul Chapman
Carr W and Kemmis S (1986) Becoming Critical: Education, Knowledge and Action Research Lewes Falmer. Cochran-Smith, M. and Lytle, S. (eds) (1993) Inside/outside: teacher research and knowledge/New York, N.Y : Teachers College Press.
Cochran-Smith, M. and Lytle, S. (1999) The teacher research movement: a decade later. Educational Researcher, 28(7):15-25
Cochran-Smith, M. and Lytle, S. (1999) Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher learning in communities. In “Review of Research in Education”. Iran Nejad, A. and Pearson, C.D. (eds) Washington AERA, Vol 24. pp 249-305
Cockley, S. (2002) The Adult Guide to Practitioner Research. Virginia USA. The Virginia Adult Educators Research Network.
Cranton, P. (1994) Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide to Educators of Adults San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Dadds, M. (1995) Passionate Enquiry and School Development: A Story About Teacher Action Research Routledge Falmer
Dadds, M. and Hart, S. (Eds) (2001) Doing Practitioner Research Differently Routledge Falmer
Davies, F., Hedge, N. and Ivanic, R. (2001) Recognising Progress Research project: A Collaborative Initiative between Literacies 2000 Team and Scottish Qualifications Agency. (especially annex on Practitioner Research Methodology)
Davis, J. and Searle, J. (2002) Seeding Literacy: Adult Educators Research Their Practice. Queensland Centre of The Adult Literacy And Numeracy Australian Research Consortium [also see technical report]
Denscombe, M. (1998) The Good Research Guide: For Small-scale research projects. Buckingham. The Open University Press.
Drever, E. (1995) Using semi-structures interviews in small-scale research: A teachers guide. Glasgow. The Scottish Council for Research in Education.
Duffin, P. (1990) ‘A place for personal history’, Adults Learning, 2, 1: 17-19.
Egan-Robertson, A and Bloome D. (1998) (eds) Students as Researchers of Culture and Language in their Own Communities. Language and Social Processes Series, Hampton Press Inc: New Jersey.
Elliott, J. (1991) Action Research for Educational Change. Milton Keynes. Open University Press.
Eraut, M (1994) Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence London: Falmer
Eraut, M. (1985) Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Use in Professional Contexts, Studies in Higher Education, 10, 117-133.
Eraut, M. (1993) The Characterisation and Development of Professional Expertise, Educational Management and Administration, 2, 4, 224-232.
Eraut, M. (1994) Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence. London: Falmer Press.
Eraut, M. (1995) Schon Shock: a case for reframing reflection in action? Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 1,1, 9-23.
Eraut, M. (1995a) Developing professional knowledge within a client-centred orientation, in Guskey, T. R. and Huberman, M. (eds) Professional Development in Education. New York: Teachers’ College Press, 227-252.
Eraut, M. (2000) Non-formal learning and tacit knowledge in professional work, British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 113-136.
Fendler, L. (2002) “Teacher Reflection in a Hall of Mirrors: Historical Influences and Political Reverberations” Educational Researcher Vol 32:3 pp 16-25.
Feuerstain, M.T. (1986) Partnership Evaluation: Evaluating Development and Community Programmes with Partners. London. Macmillan.
Frank, F. (ed.) (1992) Not Just a Number: Writings By Workplace Learners. Centre for the Study of Education and Training, Lancaster University.
Freeman, 1998, Doing Teacher –Research: From Inquiry to Understanding. Boston. Heinle and Heinle.
Furlong, J. (2002) ‘Intuition and the crisis in teacher professionalism’, in T. Atkinson, & G. Claxton, (Eds.) The intuitive Practitioner: On the value of not always knowing what one is doing. Buckingham. The Open University Press.
Gherardi, S. (2000) Practice-based Theorizing on Learning and Knowing in Organizations. Organization, 7, 2 211-223.
Gillespie, M. (1989) “Research Within Reach” Focus on Basics 2 (2) Spring: pp 8-9.
Goetz, J. and LeCompte, M. (1984) Ethnography and Qualitative Design in Educational Research, London: Academic Press.
Gordon Wells (Editor) 2000 Action, Talk, and Text: Learning and Teaching Through Inquiry (Practitioner InquiryTeachers College Press.
Greenwood, D. J. (1998) Introduction to action research: social research for social change. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications.
Hamilton, M. (1998), ‘Histories and Horoscopes: The Ethnographer as Fortune Teller’, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 29(3) pp 1-10.
Hamilton, M. (1999) ‘Ethnography for Classrooms: constructing a reflective curriculum for literacy’, in Curriculum Studies. Vol 7 (3) pages 429 – 444.
Hamilton, M. Ivanic, R. and Barton, D. (1992) 'Knowing Where We Are: Participative Approaches to Researching Literacy' in J.P. Hautecoeur (ed) ALPHA92: Literacy Strategies in Community-Based Organizations, UNESCO, Hamburg. (pp 105-116)
Hammersley, M. and Atkinson, P. (1998) “Ethnography and Participant Observation” in Denzin, N and Lincoln, Y. (eds) Strategies of Qualitative Enquiry. London: Sage.
Hammersley, M. and Atkinson, P. (1998) “Ethnography and Participant Observation” in Denzin, N and Lincoln, Y. (eds) Strategies of Qualitative Enquiry. London: Sage.
Hammersley, M. (2002) Educational Research: Policymaking and Practice. London. Paul Chapman Publishing.
Harding S (ed.) (1987) Feminism and Methodology Milton Keynes Open University Press.
Hargreaves, D.H. (1997) ‘A rejoinder to Martyn Hammersley’, in British Educational Research Journal. Vol. 23 (4). Pages 408 – 414.
Helsby, G. (1999) Changing Teachers work: The “”Reform” of Secondary Schooling. Buckingham: OUP.
Helsby, G. and McCulloch, G. (eds) (1997) Teachers and the National Curriculum London: Cassell.
Hillier, Y (1998) Informal Theory: Eliciting the Implicit in Benn, R (ed) SCRUTEA:Research, teaching and learning: Making connections in the education of adults Proceedings of 28th Annual conference July 1998. Exeter: University of Exeter
Hitchcock, G. & Hughes, D. (1989) Research and the Teacher. London: Routledge.
Hodge, R. and Jones, K. (1996) Photography in Collaborative Research: ‘Insider’ ‘Outsider’ Images and Understandings of Multilingual Literacy Practices. Centre for Language in Social Life Working Papers No 83. Lancaster University.
Ivanic, R. and Hamilton, M. (1990) ‘Literacy beyond school’, in D. Wray (ed.) Emerging Partnerships: Current Research in Language and Literacy, Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters.
Ivanic, R. and Hamilton, M. (1990) ‘Literacy beyond school’, in D. Wray (ed.) Emerging Partnerships: Current Research in Language and Literacy, Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters.
Jarvis, P. (1998) The practitioner-researcher: developing theory from practice San Francisco, Calif: Jossey-Bass
Jurmo, P. (1989) The Case for Participatory Literacy Education in Fingeret, A & Jurmo, P (eds) Participatory Literacy Education, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Keen, J. (1995) “Family Literacy in Lothian: Connect Community Learning Programme With and For Parents”. RaPAL Bulletin, No 28/29 Autumn 1995/Spring 1996 pp 22-30.
Kember, David. Action learning and action research: improving the quality of teaching and learning. Kogan Page, 2000.
Lytle, S. and M. Cochran-Smith (1993) Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge. Teachers College Press.
Lytle, S., Belzer, A., Reuman, R. (1993) Initiating Practitioner Inquiry: Adult Literacy Teachers, Tutors and Administrators Research Their Practice. National Centre on Adult Literacy: University of Pennslvania, Philadelphia, PA
Lytle, S. (1988; 1990) The Pennsylvania Framework: Reading, Writing and Talking Across the Curriculum, Pennsylvania Department of Education (with M. Botel).
Lytle, S (1999)"Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher Learning in Communities," Review of Research in Education (with M. Cochran-Smith).
Lytle, S (2000) "Teacher Research in the Contact Zone," Handbook of Reading Research Volume III
Lytle, S (2001) "Beyond Certainty: Taking an Inquiry Stance on Practice" in A. Lieberman and L. Miller, Eds. Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters. New York: Teachers College Press.
Lytle, S., and Zeni, J. (2001) Ethical Issues in Practitioner Research (Practitioner Inquiry Series) Teachers College Press.
Maynard, M and Purvis, J (1994) Researching Women's Lives, London, Taylor and Francis
McNamara, O. (ed) (2002) Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner: A framework for Teacher-researchers Routledge/Falmer.
McNiff, J., Lomax, P. and Whitehead, J. (1996) You and Your Action Research Project. London: Routledge.
Mcniff, J. (2000) Action research in organisations. London : Routledge.
Middlewood, David, Coleman, M. and Lumby, J (1999) Practitioner Research in Education: Making a Difference. Paul Chapman: London.
Murray, L., Lawrence, B. (2002) Practitioner-based Enquiry: Principles and Practices for Postgraduate Research (Social Research and Educational Studies) RoutledgeFalmer
NCSALL (2002) Five Year Review.
Noffke, S.E. and Stevenson, R.B. (eds) (1995) Educational Action Research: Becoming Practically Critical. Teachers College Press, Columbia University.
Norman, L. (2001) Evaluation Report: LSDA Regional Research Projects 2000-20001. LSDA.
Norman, L. (2002) Evaluation Report: LSDA Regional Research Projects 2001-2002. Learning and Skills Development Agency.
Norton, M. and Malicky, G. (2002) (eds) Learning About Participatory Approaches in Adult Literacy Education: Six Research in Practice Studies. Learning at the Centre Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Parr, S. (1995) “Lost For Words: Aphasia and Literacy” RaPAL Bulletin, No 26 Spring 1995 pp.8-13.
Patton, M.Q (1997) (3 rd Edition) Utilization Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text. London: Sage Publications.
Quigley, A. and Norton, M. (2002) It Simply Makes Us Better: Learning From Lireracy Research in Practice Networks. Research in Practice in Adult Literacy (RiPAL) Network, Edmonton: Canada. www.nald.ca/ripal/
Radnor, H. (2002) Researching Your Professional Practice: Doing Interpretative Research. Open University.
Reason, P. (1994) “Participatory Research” in Denzin, N and Lincoln, Y (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research, London, Sage
Reason, P. and Bradbury, H. (eds) (2000) Handbook of action research: participative inquiry and practice.
Reece I & Walker S (2000) Teaching Training and Learning Gateshead: Business Education Publishers Ltd
Reinharz S (1992) Feminist Methods in Social Research Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Roberts, G. and Prowse, J. (1999) Reporting Soaps. RaPAL Bulletin, Issue 38, Spring 1999, pp 26-28
Sanguinetti, J. (1994) Exploring the Discourses of our own Practice, Open Letter, 5(1), pp 21-44 Australia.
Saunders, M. (2000) ‘Beginning an Evaluation with RUFDATA: Theorizing a Practical Approach to Evaluation Planning’, in Evaluation. Vol 6 No. 1. Pages 7–21.
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Schon, D.A. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals think in action New York: Basic Books.
Scott, D and Usher, R. (1996) Understanding Educational Research Routledge. [Ch. 7 by Ian Bryant on “Action Research and Reflective Practice”.]
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Silverman, D (2000) Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook. London. Sage Publications.
Somekh, B. (1995) “Action Research and Improvement in Social Endeavours” in British Educational Research Association Journal Special Issue on Teacher Research: Methodological and Empowerment Issues in Practical Research for Improved Teaching and Learning. Vol 21(3) pp. 339-355.
Stanley, L and Wise, S (1993) Breaking Out Again. Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, London: Routledge
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Wadsworth, Y. (1997) (2 nd Edition) Do it yourself social research. Australia. Allen & Unwin.
Walker, R. (1985) Doing Research: A handbook for teachers. Cambridge. Methuen.
Ward, J. and Edwards, J. (2002) Learning Journeys: Learners Voices. Learners Views on Progress and achievement in Literacy and Numeracy. Learning and Skills Development Agency.
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Woods, P. (1996) Researching the Art of Teaching: ethnography for educational use. Routledge.
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