Collaborative action research in Northern Canadian rural and Indigenous schools: learning about young children’s oral language in play contexts
| Autor: | Lena Glaés-Coutts, Shelley Stagg Peterson, Laureen J. McIntyre |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Educational Action Research. 26:787-802 |
| ISSN: | 1747-5074 0965-0792 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09650792.2017.1402686 |
| Popis: | This article reports on collaborative action research in twelve northern rural and Indigenous communities in four Canadian provinces. Pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, grade one, and Aboriginal Head Start teachers worked with university researchers in three universities to create action research projects with the aim of supporting children’s oral language and writing through play in their classrooms. Inductive analysis of focus group data shows that teachers gained understandings about play as a context both for supporting and for authentic assessment of young children’s oral language. The building of trusting relationships, built through ongoing collaboration with colleagues within their schools and across four provinces, in addition to collaboration with university researchers over a number of years, was viewed as particularly influential to teachers’ professional learning. Additionally, teachers talked about the value of opportunities to contribute to the development of teaching and assessment to... |
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