Misty Sailors is a professor of language and literacy studies and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas, USA.James V. Hoffman is a professor of language and literacy studies and the Meadows Chair for Excellence in Education in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas, USA.

• Part I. Background on Practice-Based Research 1. What Is Research, and What Counts as Research? 2. Why Should Classroom Teachers Engage in Research? 3. The Roots of Practice-Based Research: Action Research 4. The Roots of Practice-Based Research: Design-Development Research 5. The Roots of Practice-Based Research: Transformative Research 6. Drawing Between and Across: Practice-Based Research Part II. Conducting Practice-Based Research 7. Formulating Research Questions in Practice-Based Research 8. Situating Your Research Alongside the Work of Others 9. Designing Your Study 10. Interacting With Your Data 11 Sharing Your Work With Others 12 The Practice-Based Researcher: Making the Road by Walking

"This book values the work of school-based literacy educators, positioning them as knowledgeable of their practice and capable of research. The text illustrates how literacy educators can take an action-oriented, research stance in their classrooms with the goal of transforming practices, contexts, and lives. Sailors and Hoffman provide links to literature and classroom-based examples to show novice teacher researchers ways they can navigate practice-based research designs. I look forward to using this resource to support graduate students and in-service teachers as they ‘take up’ the position of researcher in their practice."--Lori McKee, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada