Practitioner Research Proposal Essay
Description
Describe how an educational practitioner can monitor an impact of their work.
Part 1 (max 1250 words):
A critical analysis of the contribution of practitioner research to informing policy and/or practice in education.
• Considering your interest as a practitioner (or as one entering the teaching profession), choose one particular approach to practitioner research (e.g., action learning).
• Select and analyse several specific studies, relevant to your interest, in which this research approach was used.
• Report how these studies advanced the questions of your interest, and which problems of practice are still wide open.
Part 2 (max 1250 words): Practitioner research proposal.
• Describe how you would use the practitioner research approach you chose in Part 1 to inform and grow your professional practice.
MAKE SURE TO EXPLAIN:
• What would count as meaningful change (impact) for you, and
• How you would know whether (or to what extent) you achieved the desired change.
Throughout the essay, remember to draw on (and demonstrate) your understandings of some of the issues from core course literature, such as
• stakeholder voices,
• the purposes of education,
• audience for the practitioner research findings,
• equity and social justice.
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