A complement to Researching Schools by the same authors, this book provides readers with a strong theoretical framework for school-based research as well as valuable advice on the ways in which networks of specialist groups can work together to create a broad-ranging approach to educational research. Through a critical examination of existing research and current thinking, the authors draw out implications for the effective policy and practice of school-based research.
Illustrated throughout with case studies and including a full and detailed literature review, this book will be a vital resource for all academics pursuing research into education.
| Acknowledgements |
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| List of illustrations |
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1 Introduction: schools learning through networking and researching |
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| PART I The foundations of networking practitioner research: researching schools, collaboration and networks |
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3 Teachers learning through collaboration in schools |
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5 Key questions emerging from the literature on networking practitioner research |
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| PART 2 Studies of researching networks |
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6 A review of previous studies of researching networks |
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7 Blackburn with Darwen leading into Networked Learning Community: aligning, captaining and collaborating through research and enquiry |
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8 Bristol Opportunity Networked Learning Community: learning to research, researching to learn |
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9 Hartlepool Networked Learning Community: the journey of enquiry |
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10 Cambridge SUPER Networked Learning Community: a SchoolsUniversity Partnership for Educational Research |
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11 South West London Networked Learning Community: collaborating in action research |
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12 Surrey LIFE Networked Learning Community: learning (and research) is for everyone |
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13 Researching in networks the views of practitioners |
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14 Key questions arising from studies of researching schools |
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| PART 3 Looking to the future |
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15 Networks of researching schools: a way forward? |
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| Appendices |
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1 Research methods, data collection and research instruments |
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2 Evidence to support individual case studies |
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3 Questionnaire used across sample of Network Learning Communities (2004-5) |
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| References |
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| Glossary and acronyms |
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| Index |
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Colleen McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer at theFaculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Kristine Black-Hawkins is Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Donald McIntyre is the Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Andrew Townsend is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Warwick, UK.
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