Doing Practitioner Research Differently

Marion Dadds, Dr. Susan Hart University of Cambridge

• 1. Background and Introduction Part I Visualisation as a Method of Enquiry and Reporting 2. Children with Special Needs, Teachers with Special Needs Ros Frost 3. Visualisation in Research and Data AnalysisJacqui Potter Part II Conversation as a Method of Enquiry and Reporting 4. Towards and Understanding of Autism: An Outsider's Attempt to Get Inside Joe Geraci 5. Perceptions of Purpose for Children's Writing Tish Crotty 6. Communicative Practices in a Classroom for Children with Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties: A Case Study of Methodologies of Reflective Practice Linda Ferguson Part III Fictional Writing as a Method of Enquiry and Reporting 7. Imaginary Gardens - Enigmatic Encounters Tish Crotty 8. Not a Perfect Offering Liz Waterland Part IV Reflecting on Innovation and Quality in Practitioner Research 9. Innovation and Quality in Practitioner Research 10. New Thinking for New Practices 11. Keeping Moving

'... an absorbing account of six teacher-led projects that ignored research conventions but triumphantly met the MEd requirements. - Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement'This is a warm, courageous and moving book, which should be compulsory reading for all researchers ...' - Jean McNiff, National Foundation for Educational Research'... as I embarked upon this review, I found myself wriing in a more personal style than is customary for me. I discovered that I was charting my personal reactions to the contributions as well as recording my academic impressions about the substance of the book. Maybe this tells us something about the overall success of the collection.' - Nancy Falchikov, Journal of Further and Higher Education