Ethical Issues in Practitioner Research: 17 (Practitioner Inquiry Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807740004 ISBN 13: 9780807740002

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2001

Synopsis

This resource uncovers the hidden risks behind the progressive goals of action research in education, and provides an interpretation of the problems endemic to insider enquiries. The writers aim to show that ethical guidelines fail to address some issues characteristic of insider research.

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About the Author

Jane Zeni has worked at every level of students from preshcool through doctoral candidates. Her home base since 1977 has been the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where she has taught preservice English education, composition, and graduate writing courses. She serves as the director of Gateway Writing Project, She has led many summer institutes and inservice workshops and serves as consultant to action researchers. Jane was born in New York City and earned a bachelor's at Harvard and a master's at the University of Pennsylvania in literature. In 1969 she joined six teachers who were planning an alternative school in Philadelphia. A year later she moved to Santa Fe and taught at the Pueblo Indian day schools. Later she taught secondary English at St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe. Jane earned her master's degree in curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Later in St. Louis, she received her Ed.D. at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, in 1985. Her dissertation, an action research project involving computers, led to the book WritingLands (NCTE 1990).

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807740004
• ISBN 13: 9780807740002
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224