Becoming a Teacher through Action Research: Process, Context, and Self-Study

by Donna Kalmbach Phillips

Becoming a Teacher through Action Research is specifically written for those students seeking initial teacher licensure. Written to support these pre-service teachers, it recognizes that the process of doing action research can serve as a vehicle for assuming the professional identity of a teacher and deals directly with challenges and dilemmas of doing action research as a student teacher. The book is divided into three The book is interactive, inviting the reader to respond to text by writing and/or drawing responses. The companion CD allows the reader to either read and interact with the text completely electronically or use a combination of paper text and CD. The CD also includes downloadable templates, interactive charts/graphs and full text examples of student written action research papers.

232 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2006

Reviews

[Amanda Hasan]

A must-read for any educator new to the world of Action Research. Provides quantitative and qualitative research methods for informing and improving one's instruction through active research in their classrooms.

[Nadiene]

If you like action research, this is your book.