Reflecting Where the Action Is The Selected Works of John Elliott [Hardcover]

John Elliott has been a leading researcher, writer and thinker in education for thirty years, and has contributed over twenty books and five hundred articles to the field. This book brings together sixteen of his key writings, drawn together to show the development of his most important ideas and theories and to celebrate his career to date.

Starting with a specially written introduction, John Elliott gives an overview of his career and contextualises his selection. The chapters cover:

• rethinking educational research
• doing classroom action research
• pedagogy as form of action research
• the challenge of action research.

This book forms a single easy-access resource for researchers, academics and students who want a introduction to educational theory and an overview of John Elliott's key ideas.

Introduction: The School-Based Curriculum Development Movement  Curriculum Development as a Pedagogical Experiment  Essay 1: A Curriculum for the Study of Human Affairs - The Contribution of Lawrence Stenhouse  Essay 2: Developing Hypotheses about Classrooms from Teachers Practical Constructs - An Account of the Work of the Ford Teaching Project  Holding Teachers to Account  Essay 3: Preparing Teachers for Classroom Accountability  Essay 4: Self-Evaluation and Teacher Competence  Paradigms of Educational Research  Essay 5: Classroom Research - Science or Commonsense  Essay 6: Educational Theory, Practical Philosophy and Action Research  Essay 7: Implications of Classroom Research for Professional Development  Conceptions of Teaching as an Evidence-Based Profession  Essay 8: Making Evidence-Based Practice Educational&l3³