Coles Notes to Inquiry

1) Introduction:

Background to the Story

-Personal /Professional Relevance

-Experiencial/ Theoretical Perspective

(What is your disposition/ Where do you feel comfortable)

2) The Question : Focus of Inquiry

Rationale

3) Literature Review

What is the curriculum stuff is situating you in the larger field of education

Situate yourself in the literature/ methadology

Situatie and question at the intersection of - these bodies of knowledge around your topic

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4) Methadology / Situate

Qualitative / Quatitative Paradigm

(ie. Qualitative Arts Based Narrative Researcher)

You can do mixed Method.

Action Research is part of PAR Participatory Action Research

Case Study

5. Method: Research Design

a) Do Reading

Interviewing

Sites of Inquiry (Where are you going to do the work) (ie. Your own reading / Interview with teachers

Self: Reading / Writing

In you class/ With your students: Interviewing

b) Data: What is my data?

6) Data Analysis : What are my learnings/ Synthesis

7) Findings (what you see/ what you observe/ What you have wondered about

8) Discussion

9) Look at the implications of it.

10) Future direction/ future questions

Look up: Holistic Education

Poem

Where I am from

What is my philosophy of Education

Where am I going