Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology. This book transcends longstanding debates over quantitative vs. qualitative and scholar vs. practitioner research. Instructive and uplifting, it shows that research is difficult but also joyful.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I—Breathing Life into Research Methods for Teachers
1. Introduction: Why Critical Praxis Research?
2. Stages of Grief & Bringing the Joy Back to Inquiry
3. Positivist Research, Death of the Self
4. Qualitative Research: The Researcher in a Comatose State
5. CPR, Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers
Part II—Practicing Critical Praxis Research
6. The Seven Deadly Sins: Vices and Virtues of CPR
7. The Art of CPR Research Design
8. From Knowledge Discovery to Understanding
9. Demystifying Research Ethics in CPR
Part III—CPR in Action
10. Finding Solidarity with/in/through CPR
11. Shaken and Stirred by Carolyne Ali-Kahn
12. Making Space for Praxis: Reflections on Research with ESL Teachers by Elizabeth Robinson
13. Developing My Own Ways of Knowing as a Teacher Researcher by Maura Morse
14. The Interplay of Identity, Context, and Purpose in a Study of Mathematics Teaching and Learning by Roser Giné
15. An Alternative in UpStream: Reconsidering Alternative Education and Resiliency vis-à-vis Identity and Context by Siouxsie Espinosa
16. From Research to Me-Search by Christopher J. Avilés
17. The Whole Story by Melissa N. Winchell
Glossary
Index