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A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Research
It is now well over twenty years since this book was originally published and the educational landscape in Britain and most other Western countries has changed dramatically since 1985. One of the most dominant changes observed since then is the increase in centralized policy-making, however, far from undermining the role of ‘teacher-researcher’, it has in my opinion made such a professional ethic all the more necessary. Educational research and educational literature increasingly suggest that ‘top-down’ change does not necessarily ‘mandate what matters’, and that it is the work of teachers, that is most influential in determining the achievements of students. If we are serious about enhancing the quality of education in our schools, teachers need to be more, not less, involved in curriculum development, school improvement and pedagogy. It seems to me that the major difference between now and the mid-1980s is that teacher researchers have to increasingly take a whole school and at times systemic perspective. They now have to interpret and adapt policy to their own teaching situation, to link their classroom research work to that of other colleagues and whole school priorities, as well as to the process of teaching and learning.
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