A Handbook of Methods and Resources for the Reflective Practitioner
A handbook of research techniques for teachers, this book documents the historical development and changing nature of action research in the curriculum and aims to encourage teacher development through curriculum inquiry. It describes 57 action research tools, ten of which are new.
research, development, and dissemination (RD&D) model which insulated
professional researchers from the teaching ranks. This separation has had the
negative consequence of preventing researchers from studying problems in the
field, ...
A Critque of the Method Based on Five Years' Experience in the Transamozonica Region of Brazil
This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. The authors begin the book with the history of PAR, and then use a variety of case studies that chronicle sustainable development efforts in Brazil. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these efforts and suggest specific ways to improve on future PAR efforts.
Action research is generally considered to have been pioneered by Kurt Lewin in
the 1940s. Lewin was involved in government programs to improve intergroup
relations, and he sought methods of improving the contribution of science to the ...
A Practical Guide to Conducting Pedagogical Research in Universities
A practical, down-to-earth guide for those who work in teaching and learning in universities, this book will be indispensable reading for those who would like to carry out action research on their own practice. Lin S Norton's concept of 'pedagogical action research' has come from over twenty years' experience of carrying out such research, and more than six years of encouraging colleagues to carry out small scale studies at an institutional, national and international level. This accessible text illustrates what might be done to improve teaching/supporting learning by carrying out action research to address such questions such as: What can I do to enthuse my students? What can I do to help students become more analytical? How can I help students to link theory with their practice? What can I do to make my lecturing style more accessible? What is going wrong in my seminars when my students don't speak? Action Research for Teaching and Learning offers readers practical advice on how to research their own practice in a higher education context. It has been written specifically to take the reader through each stage of the action research process with the ultimate goal of producing a research study which is publishable. Cognisant of the sector’s view on what is perceived to be ‘mainstream research’, the author has also written a substantial theoretical section which justifies the place of pedagogical action research in relation to reflective practice and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
A Practical Guide to Conducting Pedagogical Research in Universities Lin S
Norton ... with the scholarship of teaching and learning, I attempt to bring all the
arguments together in putting forward a case for pedagogical action research.
Craig Mertler’s Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. Practical and comprehensive, the book focuses on research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday practice. This Fifth Edition adds enhanced coverage of rigor and ethics in action research, means of establishing quality of both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as strengthened pedagogical features. New material includes discussions of social justice advocacy as an application of action research and the inclusion of abstracts in research reports.
This Fifth Edition adds enhanced coverage of rigor and ethics in action research, means of establishing quality of both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as strengthened pedagogical features.
This volume sets out to provide experience-based tools for those needing to assess and improve teaching and learning quality. It presents a detailed framework explaining what action learning and research is with information on how to carry out an action learning project.
A fascinating insight into the designs that have shaped our century, this at-a-glance guide takes us through a chronologically organized one-hundred-year progression of the world's most influential designs. The author has selected a classic piece of industrial or applied design for each year of the century. He discusses the origin of each design and explains why it was a classic of its time, citing key cultural, social, and political events that place each of the designs in an historical context. Some of the designs that have changed and shaped our lives include: Eastman's beloved "Brownie" camera (1900); the shapely Coca-Cola bottle (1915); the "Butterfly" chair (1938); the bombastic "Model 1015" Wurlitzer jukebox (1947); the "Selectric" electric typewriter (1961); and spanning the remaining years of the century, from the 1960s through the 1980s, the impossible-to-imagine-life-without items like the indispensable ballpoint pen, electric razor, food processor, portable radio-cassette, and computer mouse. The book's concluding entries feature cutting-edge home furnishings and appliances of the 1990s.
Premiers: Omega workshops, England; De Stijl journal (see p. 48), Netherlands;
sale of the home refrigerator. Chicago; Citroen. France: crossword puzzle, by English-born journalist Arthur Wynne. U.S.; Erector set child's toy, by A.C. Gilbert.
A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time
Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments as well as 25 new black-and-white photographs and illustrations. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel Garc a M rquez to Homer and Marcel Proust, the entries provide a compelling, accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature. All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.
A voracious reader who had access to his father's extensive library, Nabokov
grew up trilingual, first learning English, then ... Fascinated with games and
puzzles, he also composed chess problems and invented the Russian crossword
puzzle ...
The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people—from Hitler’s personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici; from underground leaders to diplomats; from top Allied field commanders to brave young GIs. Toland adeptly weaves together these interviews using research from thousands of primary sources. When it was first published, The Last 100 Days made history, revealing after-action reports, staff journals, and top-secret messages and personal documents previously unavailable to historians. Since that time, it has come to be regarded as one of the greatest historical narratives of the twentieth century.
... of the meeting with Wolff and was instructed to continue negotiations under the
code name Operation “Sunrise Crossword. ... enjoyed Marshal Tobulkhin's
hospitality in Hungary—the American Lyman Lemnitzer and the British Terence
Airey, ...
In 100 Missions North, Ken Bell recounts the harrowing sorties that he and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs, the famous "Thud", in 1966-67, when pilots faced a 50 percent loss rate. What was it like to face these odds day after day? We learn that men sustained by faith in each other and joined by the unique bonds of combat can overcome anxiety, fear, and even terror to achieve common goals.
She doesn't understand a word of English. I call her Water Buffalo ... The center
page of the paper was a must—comics, the crossword puzzle, and a sexy picture
of a lovely American girl looking seductively come hither. Talked out and full, the
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Sikap ini bertentangan dengan prinsip maqashid syari'ah. lihat juga, Yudian
Wahyudi, "Maqashid al-Syari'ah sebagai Doktrin dan Metode," Al- Jami'ah 58 (
1995): 98-105; dan idem, UshulFikih versus Hermeneutika: Membaca Islam dari
Kanada dan Amerika (Yogyakarta: Pesantren Nawesea Press, 2006), 44-52.
Tentang Azad, lihat, Yudian Wahyudi, "Islam and Nationalisme: A Political
Adventure of Maulana Abui Kalam Azad," dalam, Yudian Wahyudi dkk., The
Dynamics of Islamic ...
