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The significance of 'I' in educational research and the responsibility of intellectuals

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dc.creator Jean McNiff
dc.date 2008-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:06:11Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:06:11Z
dc.identifier 0256-0100
dc.identifier 2076-3433
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/fa5c1f82e7b542b9af0f2e516a020a57
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10332
dc.description In this paper I call for an unequivocal legitimisation of the living 'I' in educational research. The paper itself becomes a context that explains this call. It is a report of my action research into my professional learning through working in South Africa, within the context of new policy frameworks for continuing teacher development. The call embeds issues about the need for higher education practitioners to produce their explanatory accounts of practice as they support teachers' enquiries for improving practice and knowledge creation, and to legitimise a free academic press for the dissemination of those accounts. The accounts need to demonstrate epistemological, methodological and scholarly validity, to strengthen practitioners' attempts to influence policy debates about continuing professional development. By clarifying the processes of establishing quality, it becomes possible to show the links between continuing professional education and the active contributions of practitioners to economic and social wellbeing.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Education Association of South Africa (EASA)
dc.relation http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-01002008000300005
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/0256-0100
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3433
dc.source South African Journal of Education, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 351-364 (2008)
dc.subject academic freedom
dc.subject epistemological accountability
dc.subject living educational theories
dc.subject practitioner enquiry
dc.subject professional learning in higher education
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title The significance of 'I' in educational research and the responsibility of intellectuals
dc.type article


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