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Integrating Systematic Enquiry into Everyday Professional Practice: towards some principles of procedure
Author(s) -
Frost David
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192950210305
Subject(s) - insider , reflexivity , action research , sociology , action (physics) , reflection (computer programming) , professional development , engineering ethics , focus (optics) , pedagogy , epistemology , computer science , social science , engineering , philosophy , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , programming language
Abstract This paper is an exercise in reflexivity. The writer reflects on his efforts to develop a collaborative action research methodology for evaluating a professional development scheme which is designed to support ‘bottom‐up development planning’. The scheme in question is one in which an HEI collaborates with managers in secondary schools to establish school‐based, award‐bearing, programmes which are themselves based on a particular approach to action research: The writer is able therefore to explore the substantive focus of his research—the development of an insider methodology for teachers—through reflection on his own methodology as a practitioner researcher and vice versa. The paper also sets out a range of issues which have emerged so far and identifies some tentative ‘principles of procedure’ which provide a basis for the evaluation of such schemes.