ACCESSING ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Many Universities make available electronic journals and I do urge you to make use of this facility.
1) Accessing Educational Researcher
Do please see if you can access the following three papers by Elliot Eisner in Educational Researcher. I think the 1988 paper on the primary of experience and the politics of method is particularly relevant to educational enquiries because of his work on the hegemony of the propositional form and on art as the image of feeling. I have also included below, a reference to a paper on paradigm proliferation by Robert Donmoyer. This makes a most telling point about different approaches to validity. I have also included a reference to a 1993 paper by Kathy Carter on the place of story in educational research and references to the work of Jean Clandinin and Michael Connolly who have done so much to develop the legitimacy of narrative forms of communication in educational research.
Eisner, E. (1988) The Primacy of Experience and the Politics of Method, Educational Researcher, Vol. 17, No. 5, 15-20.
Eisner, E. (1993) Forms of Understanding and the Future of Educational Research. Educational Researcher, Vol. 22, No. 7, 5-11.
Eisner, E. (1997) The Promise and Perils of Alternative Forms of Data Representation. Educational Researcher, Vol. 26, No. 6, 4-10.
Eisner, E. (2005) Reimaging Schools: The selected works of Elliot W. Eisner, Oxford & New York; Routledge. This 2005 publications contains the above three papers published in Educational Researcher.
Educational
Research in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation: What's a Journal Editor to Do?
Robert Donmoyer
Educational
Researcher Vol. 25, No. 2 (Mar., 1996), pp. 19-25
The
Place of Story in the Study of Teaching and Teacher Education
Kathy
Carter
Educational
Researcher Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 5-12+18
Teachers'
Professional Knowledge Landscapes: Teacher Stories. Stories of Teachers. School
Stories. Stories of Schools
D.
Jean Clandinin; F. Michael Connelly
Educational
Researcher Vol. 25, No. 3 (Apr., 1996), pp. 24-30
The
Stories Educational Researchers Tell about Themselves
John
K. Smith
Educational
Researcher Vol. 26, No. 5 (Jun., 1997), pp. 4-11
2) BERA Presidential Addresses
BERA have published their Presidential Addresses and made them freely available from:
http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/presidential_addresses.php
The Lomax, Bassey and Whitehead addresses have clear
relevance for the enquiries of practitioner-researchers
3) I think that you will find useful articles in the Cambridge Journal of Education,
Do have a read of the June 2006 issue of Action Research. I particularly liked
the Anisur Rahman paper:
Roots
of action research and self-reliance thinking in Rabindranath Tagore
Anisur
Rahman
Action
Research 2006 4: 231-245.
4) Accessing Living Theory Doctoral Theses at: http://www.actionresearch.net/living.shtml
(The theses of Mary Hartog, Madeline Church, Marian Naidoo, Margaret Farren, Eleanor Lohr, Eden Charles, Je Kan Adler-Collins, Karen and Simon Riding were submitted under a change in regulation of 2004 allowing the submission of e-media. These submissions connect with Elliot EisnerŐs 1993 Presidential Address to AERA advocating such representations of research)
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