Power of Practice-Based Literacy Research

Misty Sailors is a professor of language and literacy studies and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas, USA.James V. Hoffman is a professor of language and literacy studies and the Meadows Chair for Excellence in Education in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas, USA.

"This book values the work of school-based literacy educators, positioning them as knowledgeable of their practice and capable of research. The text illustrates how literacy educators can take an action-oriented, research stance in their classrooms with the goal of transforming practices, contexts, and lives. Sailors and Hoffman provide links to literature and classroom-based examples to show novice teacher researchers ways they can navigate practice-based research designs. I look forward to using this resource to support graduate students and in-service teachers as they ‘take up’ the position of researcher in their practice."--Lori McKee, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

• Part I. Background on Practice-Based Research 1. What Is Research, and What Counts as Research? 2. Why Should Classroom Teachers Engage in Research? 3. The Roots of Practice-Based Research: Action Research 4. The Roots of Practice-Based Research: Design-Development Research 5. The Roots of Practice-Based Research: Transformative Research 6. Drawing Between and Across: Practice-Based Research Part II. Conducting Practice-Based Research 7. Formulating Research Questions in Practice-Based Research 8. Situating Your Research Alongside the Work of Others 9. Designing Your Study 10. Interacting With Your Data 11 Sharing Your Work With Others 12 The Practice-Based Researcher: Making the Road by Walking