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When Students Negotiate: An Action Research Case Study of a Year 8 English Class in a Secondary College in Victoria, Australia
Authors: Sproston Carlyn
This article describes what happens when students are given the opportunity to be part of the decision-making process, both in the negotiation of what takes place in the classroom and in the 'action' of the action research process itself. An action research approach was used as the most appropriate method by which to analyze the experiences of students and teacher as they negotiated three action research cycles in their Year 8 English classes. Specifically, the research focused on the connection between negotiated learning and motivation.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 05, 2008
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In a glass darkly? Writing as blurred reflection
Authors: Mantle Martin
When I started a PhD on the representation of blind men, I believed that what was required was the production of something that proclaimed my knowledge and my expertise - to get the reader to see what I mean. This essay explores the fragmentary and blurry fragments and with blurred edges to investigate the possibility that knowledge is not the same as clarity, and that reading and writing are as much about the spaces between words as the words themselves.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jul. 02, 2008
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Storytelling as research praxis, and conversations that enabled it to emerge
Authors: De Carteret Phoenix
The paper rechoreographs the process that enabled storytelling to emerge as a method of inquiry and a mode of representing the research. Crucial to the process was the supervisory relationship wherein my supervisor modeled a decolonizing pedagogical practice that held uncertainty in chrysalis while the methodology emerged.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jul. 01, 2008