Unearthing the Unspeakable: When Teacher Research and Political Agendas Collide.

Herr, Kathryn

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ERIC Number: EJ592831

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Unearthing the Unspeakable: When Teacher Research and Political Agendas Collide.

Herr, Kathryn

Language Arts, v77 n1 p10-15 Sep 1999

Recounts the complications that arose when the author's teacher research began to focus on issues of institutional racism within the school in which she worked. Discusses the politics of studying one's own site, and the dilemmas and risks in that process. Explores the issues involved in teacher research that is oriented toward school change and transformation. (SR)

Descriptors: Action Research, Change Agents, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Organizational Change, Politics of Education, Racial Bias, Reflective Teaching, Resistance to Change, School Organization, Teacher Researchers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: Doing Teacher Research.