When Experience Is the Best Teacher: The Teacher as Researcher.

Kelsay, Karla Lynn

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ERIC Number: EJ431991

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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When Experience Is the Best Teacher: The Teacher as Researcher.

Kelsay, Karla Lynn

Action in Teacher Education, v13 n1 p14-21 Spr 1991

Study investigated the development of elementary teachers' professional knowledge while involved in a qualitative research process. Teachers took the graduate course "Trends and Issues in Education" which involved them as researchers. They kept journals and recorded class sessions and individual conferences, discovering that as teacher-researchers, they also became teacher-learners. (SM)

Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Participant Observation, Research Methodology, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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