EDUCATION
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    RESEARCH FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER
    SUMMER SESSION 1980 ?
    INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Lawrence Stenhouse
    Monday & Wednesday, 12:30 - 4:30
    Centre for Applied
    Research in Education
    (CARE)
    University of E. Anglia
    Norwich, England
    For more than ten years researchers associated with the Centre
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    for Applied Research in Education have been exploring the idea of
    'Teacher as Researcher'. ?
    They have been concerned with the
    development of curriculum, with the art of the teacher and, most
    important, with the idea that the teacher should not accept but
    evaluate educational ideas and educational research.
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    In 1979 a
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    conference of teachers (only) on the theme, 'Teacher as Researcher',
    was organised by teachers associated with the Centre and was
    sponsored by the Schools Council.
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    There are, of course, some problems in sharing this work with
    teachers who are away from their classrooms during the summer recess,
    but this is what the course will attempt.
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    It will be helpful if
    teachers can bring to the course - for their own private study, not
    for sharing with others - a few tape recordings of themselves
    involved in different types of work in their own classrooms; and
    they may wish to use a tape recorder on the course.
    The course will involve presentations, discussions and
    activities, and planning and pacing will be negotiated with the
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    group involved.
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    The initial agenda proposed is:
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    Why not leave research to the researchers? What's in
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    educational research for teachers anyway?
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    The idea of the self-monitoring teacher.
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    The classroom as the laboratory of the experimenting teacher.
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    How the teacher can evaluate curriculum and research and apply it.
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    Case-study research and the teachers understanding of
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    situation (own case)
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    The teacher, research and power in the system: teachers
    vis-a-vis pupils, parents, researchers, administrators.
    The course will be run as an inquiry and will involve a good
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    One aim will be to help teachers to teach?
    through inquiry and discussion.
    Two curricula will be studied: the Humanities Curriculum
    Project and MAN: a course of study. The work of the following
    research and development projects will also be drawn on:
    The Ford Teaching Project (John Elliott);
    Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations (Lawrence Stenhouse);
    Problems of Disseminating Action Research Results (Jean Rudduck and
    Lawrence Stenhouse);
    Introducing Innovation to Pupils (Jean Rudduck);
    Educational Case Records (Lawrence Stenhouse and Jean Rudduck);
    Learning to Teach Through Discussion (Jean Rudduck);
    Exploring Developmental Psychology
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    Classrooms (Jean Rudduck).
    REQUIRED PRIMARY READINGS:
    An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development by Lawrence
    Stenhouse. London: Heinemann Educational Books. 1975.
    Learning to Teach Through Discussion edited by Jean Rudduck.
    Norwich: CARE 1979 (Can$1442surface; Can$9.66ajr from CARE.
    University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England)
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