Applying Theory to Educational Research: An Introductory Approach with Case Studies

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction 1
Jeff Adams, Matt Cochrane and Linda Dunne

Part I New Voices: Beginning Researchers Apply Theory 11

1 Learning and Maintaining Professional Expertise Within a Multi-Professional Critical Care Team 15
Jill Cochrane

2 The 'Q' Standards and Initial Teacher Training: The Discursive Formation of Teachers and their Trainers 31
Paul Bartle

3 Power and Status Theories in Teachers' Professional Development 47
Karen Castle

4 The Process of Technology Learning: Applying Bruner's Theory on Play, Discovery and Cultural Learning to the Acquisition of ICT Capability 61
Paula Beer

Part II Emergent Voices: Accounts by Researchers Becoming Familiar with the Use of Theory 75

5 Teachers' Professional Identity: Theoretical Perspectives on Workplace Learning in the Teaching Context 81
Rob Foster

6 Children's University Aspirations and the Effects of Cultural and Social Capital 95
Matt Cochrane

7 Finding Theory Through Collaborative Research 109
Clare Woolhouse

8 How Applying a Discourse-Based Approach to Investigate Inclusion Changed a Research Project and a Way of Thinking 123
Linda Dunne

Part III Voices of Experience: Accounts by Researchers Versed in the Use of Theory 139

9 Should I be Singing This, and if So, How High?: Theoretical Approaches to Boyhood and Masculinity 145
Martin Ashley

10 Theorizing from Bricolage: Researching Collaboration in Art and Design Education 157
Madeleine Sclater

11 Constructivism and the Pedagogy of Teacher Education: Reflections on Practice 175
Graham Rogers

12 Developing Professional Practice through Action Research: Theory-Generative Approaches in Practitioner Research 189
Mary McAteer

13 Art Practice as Education Research 203
Jeff Adams

Postscript 219
Jeff Adams, Matt Cochrane and Linda Dunne

Index 221